The present study reports results of an experiment in which the author and her students at King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia shared an online grammar course with a professor and his students at Umm Al-Qura University (UQU) in Makkah, Saudi Arabia using www.makkahelearning.net. The experiment proved to be a total failure. The cultural factors contributing to students' inadequate participation in the online course, and hesitation to register and interact are discussed. [This paper was published in: "Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research," edited by Meena Singhal and John Liontas, 2007, pp. 77-83.]