The use of a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) technology for education implies that an individual student will have the experience that they are both located in an environment where they can find resources, including other students and tutors, to support their learning and that they are actually present in that environment. The first experience is known as ‘immersion’ and the second as ‘presence’. The Internet environment, based on the Virtual Campus metaphor, can be specifically developed to promote a problem solving approach through collaboration. The online environment uses Virtual Rooms to facilitate meetings of members of the course and to hold different components of the course materials. The distance education programs offered by institutes can also use this technology to enable students to avail the academic facilities from any computer connected to the Internet. One of the most positive things about this online course is to get to know students/teachers in other countries.
The use of a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) technology for education implies that an individual student will have the experience that they are both located in an environment where they can find resources, including other students and tutors, to support their learning and that they are actually present in that environment. The first experience is known as ‘immersion’ and the second as ‘presence’. The Internet environment, based on the Virtual Campus metaphor, can be specifically developed to promote a problem solving approach through collaboration. The online environment uses Virtual Rooms to facilitate meetings of members of the course and to hold different components of the course materials. The distance education programs offered by institutes can also use this technology to enable students to avail the academic facilities from any computer connected to the Internet. One of the most positive things about this online course is to get to know students/teachers in other countries.