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The [[Re.ViCa]] wiki has been set up to provide an inventory and to show the results of a systematic review of Virtual Campus initiatives of the past decade within higher education throughout the world. In this wiki you will find a list of more than 300 interesting [[Programmes]], all of which have been categorised. All programmes are listed based on the interesting or innovative eLearning approach they have taken. We have listed a significant number of relevant initiatives varying greatly in terms of size, type of student, country of origin etc. You will also find [[Country reports]], describing the educational context and ways in which decision-makers in these countries have taken steps to address changes brought about due to the emergence of the Information Society. The wiki also contains 9 in-depth [[Institutional reports]] and a large number of related [[Resources]]. We have collected and described relevant research projects, outputs, and publications, and provide a list of experts in the field of Virtual Campuses. Some pages are protected, but most are open and await your contributions. Do you know an interesting Virtual Campus or do you want to provide information about your country? Please log in and help us to sustain this wiki, as a large and dynamic inventory of Virtual Campuses!

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# [[Historical overview]]
# Definitions of [[virtual campus]]
# An [[Inventory]] of virtual campuses across the world
##[[Programmes]] of interest to Virtual Campus analysts
## [[Country reports]] + [[Country template]] for authors and [[Countries]] of relevance
## [[Institutional reports]] (Includes the case studies)
## Theoretical [[Categorization]]
#[[Critical Success Factors]]
# [[Resources]]
# [[Glossary]] of terms and [[Abbreviations]]
# [[Project]] description
# [[International Advisory Committee]], [[People]] in the project and other relevant [[Experts]]
#[[:Special:Categories|List of all Categories]] - countries, case studies, etc
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Virtual campus

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== Overview ==

The phrase "virtual campus" became prominent around 1997, when various universities launched their versions of a virtual campus. It is often applied to a single university which has a virtual university “fringe” round a physical campus, but there are some totally virtual campuses, such as the Open University of Catalonia. Now there are at least 10 virtual campus operations in the UK and many more elsewhere. Increasingly a university may no longer use the phrase "virtual campus" while still in fact having one.

== Defining “Virtual Campus” – A boundary approach==

=== Overview ===

Although the phrase ‘virtual campus’ is an important concept in the field of education, there is no theoretical framework for it. This chapter focuses on the development of such a theoretical framework. Similar to the work Stoof, Martens, Van Merrienboer & Bastiaens (2002) did for the concept of competence, we propose the boundary approach for virtual campuses, an aid to support stakeholders in the field of e-learning in thinking about the concept ‘virtual campus’. Here the concept of the ‘virtual campus’is being explored by focusing on its dimensions. This holds the quest for one absolute definition of it is abandoned and that instead definitions are being valued against their degree of viability.
The expression "virtual campus" became prominent around 1997, when various universities launched their versions of a virtual campus. It is often applied to a single university which has a virtual university “fringe” round a physical campus, but there are some totally virtual campuses, such as the Open University of Catalonia. Now there are at least 10 virtual campus operations in the UK and many more elsewhere. Increasingly a university may no longer use the phrase "virtual campus" while still in fact having one.

===The boundary approach for the concept of virtual campus===

As the previous section shows there are a lot of variables involved defining the concept of the virtual campus. Depending on the context, the target group, the different goals and the technology involved a definition of ‘virtual campus’ can be formulated. The partners in the project group of the ReVica project do not want to give one single definition of the concept of the virtual campus. Since there will never be one right answer on the question what an virtual campus is,we suggest to use a conceptual representation aid as is shown in figure 1 to discuss the concept of the virtual campus. Figure 1 show the concept of a virtual campus as an amoeba-like form. The amoeba represents the virtual campus as a limited and demarcated concept, which is expressed by drawing its boundary. The boundary is being shaped by two opposing forces, being visualized as arrows (Based on the work of Stoof, Martens, Van Merriënboer & Bastiaens, 2002, p 352). From inside the figure, forces expand the boundary. This process is labeled as the ‘inside-out approach’ of the concept of the virtual campus. These are dimensions that define and construct the concept of the virtual campus. In Re.ViCa we aim to take virtual campus as synonymous with large-scale e-learning initiative. This ‘large-scale e-learning initiative’ is the inside-out dimension.

[[Image:The_boundary_approach.JPG|thumb|left|Figure 1: the boundary approach to define the concept of the virtual campus]]

On the other hand, the forces from outside the figure reduce the boundary. This outside-in approach focuses on the selection of terms that best express the intended meaning of the virtual campus (so it clarifies the relationships). In Re.ViCa we avoid the issue of giving distance e-learning a privileged position over campus-based e-learning but this begs the question of what is large-scale? Here we suggest some indicators, these are all outside in dimensions, which suggest large-scale - note that not all of them need to be satisfied. An e-learning initiative in a university - or consortium of universities - is major if it has many (but not necessarily all) of the following characteristics:

* It requires at least one per cent of the institutional budget (this is a rule of thumb taken from Activity Based Costing theory that it is pointless to track from the top any initiatives below that level of expenditure).
* The person responsible (as the majority proportion of his/her job) for leading that initiative has a rank and salary at least equivalent to that of a university full professor at Head of Department level, or equivalent rank of administrative or technical staff (usually an Assistant Director) - and ideally that of Dean or full Director.
* There is a specific department to manage and deliver the iniative with a degree of autonomy from mainstream IT, library, pedagogic or quality structures.
* Progress of the initiative is overseen by a Steering Group chaired by one of the most senior managers in the institution (in UK terms, a Pro-Vice Chancellor).
* The initiative is part of the institution's business plan and is not totally dependent on any particular externally funded project
* There are strategy, planning and operational documents defining the initiative and regularly updated
* The head of the institution (Vice-Chancellor, Rector, President, etc) will from time to time in senior meetings be notified of progress and problems with the initiative
* The head of the institution is able to discuss the initiative in general terms with equivalent heads of other institutions - in the way that he/she would be able to discuss a new library, laboratory or similar large-scale development
As said before as a project group we do not want to take the arrogant view to present one final definition of the virtual campus, Time will catch up on us when we do that and our work will become obsolete. For the time being we present a working definition, that involves large scale initiatives (an inside out dimension) which are recognizable on the list of characteristics above. The boundary approach makes it easier to change the definition in the future and discuss new opinions.

== Virtual campus definition of the European Commission==

Cooperation between higher education institutions in the field of e-learning, regarding: design of joint curricula development by several universities, including agreements for the evaluation, validation and recognition of acquired competences, subject to national procedures; large–scale experiments of virtual mobility in addition to physical mobility and development of innovative dual mode curricula, based on both traditional and on-line learning methods. This broad definition involves many issues from partnerships between traditional and/or distance universities and HEI with a view to offering joint certifications (for undergraduate and/or postgraduate levels) and cooperation with learning support services. This might also include collaborative activities in strategic areas of education or research through cooperation involving researchers, academics, students, management, administrative and technical personnel. 'Virtual campuses' should not be confused with e-learning platforms.

Source: http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/guide/glossary_en.html

At the e-learningeuropa.info portal 'Virtual Campus' is defined as "Part of a university or faculty that offers educational facilities at any time or, in theory, any place, by Internet."

Source: http://www.elearningeuropa.info/main/index.php?page=glossary&abc=V

At a European Commission consultation workshop held in Brussels on 23rd November 2004
entitled “The ‘e’ for our universities – virtual campus” (EACEA, 2004), one of the working
groups proposed three definitions emphasising different aspects of a virtual campus. These
were the:

(i) Collaboration perspective: The term "virtual campus" denotes ICT-based collaboration of different partners supporting both, learning offers and research in a distributed setting.

(ii) Enterprise (economic) perspective: The term "virtual campus" denotes an ICT-based
distributed learning and research enterprise.

(iii) Networked organisation perspective: The term "virtual campus" denotes an environment, which augments and/or integrates learning and research services offered by different partners.

Source: http://ec.europa.eu/education/archive/elearning/doc/workshops/virtual%20campuses/report_en.pdf

== Virtual campus definition of the BENVIC Project==
The concept of a Virtual Campus refers to a specific format of distance education and on-line learning in which students, teaching staff and even university administrative and technical staff mainly 'meet' or communicate trough technical links.

Source: http://www.benvic.odl.org/indexpr.html

== Virtual campus definition of Wikipedia ==
A Virtual Campus refers to the online offerings of a college or university where college work is completed either partially or wholly online, often with the assistance of the teacher, professor, or teaching assistant.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Campus

== Virtual Campus by Van Dusen ==
The Virtual Campus is a metaphore for the teaching, learning and research environment created by the convergence of new powerful instruction and communication technologies

Source: E-learning in Spain: The consolidation of the earliest take-off, Albert Sangra

Van Dusen (1997
== Virtual campus synonyms in other countries ==
=== Belgium ===
# "Campus Virtuel" (FR) such as for the
## [http://www.elearning.ulg.ac.be/modules/freecontent/index.php?id=69 Virtual Campus of the University of Liege], [http://nettskolen.nki.no/in_english/megatrends/Liege_Article.pdf MegaTrends case study (PDF)]
## [http://www.campusvirtuel.be Campusvirtuel.be] from 3 Business Schools ([http://www.solvay.edu Solvay], [http://www.hec.ulg.ac.be/EN/index.php HEC-ULg] and [http://www.uclouvain.be/en-lsm.html LSM]), article in French: [http://www.uclouvain.be/259258.html "Solvay, HEC-ULg et la LSM créent ensemble un campus virtuel"]
# "Virtuele Campus" (NL) which was '''formerly''' used to describe:
## [http://www.secondlifecrew.be/795/hogeschool-heeft-zijn-eigen-virtuele-campus.html a terminated school project as a Second Life campus] for [http://www.kahosl.be/site/index.php?p=/nl/page/system:index/kaho/ Catholic University College Ghent (formerly KaHo Sint-Lieven)]
## [http://www.virtuelecampus.be a virtual tour and information guide of the University of Antwerp], which is now redirected to a new URL with the appropriate title "

=== France ===
# "Université Virtuelle"
# "Campus Virtuel"
# "Campus numérique"
# "Université Numérique (de Région)"

Visit our wiki page '''[[VC definition - france|VC definition - France]]'''

===United Kingdom===

The Re.ViCa wiki page on the UK, written mainly in the summer of 2008, summarises the use of “virtual campus” in UK tertiary education as follows:
As a matter of historical interest, the actual phrase virtual campus is (still) used in the way it is defined in this chapter at the following UK universities and colleges:
*Universities. University of Lincoln, University of London External Programme, Oxford Brookes University and Robert Gordon University. (Sheffield Hallam University used the phrase for several years but is said to feel that nowadays the phrase is insufficiently distinctive.)
*Colleges. City of Bristol College, Glenrothes College, North West Institute of Further and Higher Education (Londonderry), St Helens College, and the Western Colleges Consortium.
*NHS. The NHS University (NHSU) and several medical schools including at Kings College London use or used the phrase.
*Ulster University’s Campus One describes itself as a virtual campus.
*One supplier’s product is called the “Teknical Virtual Campus”

A search – Search 1 – was done in Google on 14 May 2009 for
"virtual campus" site:uk .There are 11600 hits (!) of which the first 50 have been analysed. It excludes material which is actually about virtual campuses outside the UK but which might have been described by articles published on “.uk” web sites. A second search – Search 2 – tried to establish current usage within HE/FE (post-secondary) with a tighter search: 2008 OR 2009 "virtual campus" -"virtual campus tour" site:ac.uk There are still 724 English pages. The first 150 have been reviewed.
Conclusions: At the top level, although few of the original university adopters of the phrase use “virtual campus” as much or as visibly as before, it is still used for a number of departmental, consortium and private provider initiatives – and also by an increasing number of colleges. However, there are a number of uses that are out of scope – including for “virtual tours” of a physical campus and for various experiments with Second Life. Finally, it continues to be used beyond the boundaries of post-secondary education, for example in prisons and by commercial training providers in a way that would be valid if the providers were in scope for us. In more detail:
# The following UK universities use the phrase “Virtual Campus” (or in some cases the short form “Virtual” – e.g. Brookes Virtual) within the usual range of Re.ViCa senses at an institutional level. It can appear in a variety of ways: in their strapline for their e-learning initiative, as a component of a URL, a link from their home page, or a regularly used phrase in their top-level narratives: University of Lincoln, University of London External Programme, Oxford Brookes University (Brookes Virtual) and Robert Gordon University. Not all these universities have it as part of their strapline for their e-learning initiative.
# A number of other universities do not use in such a visible sense but the phrase appears – or has appeared – in places in their literature. These include Sheffield Hallam University, Huddersfield University.
# A further number of other universities use the phrase at a departmental level: Kings College London (more than one department), Liverpool John Moores University (computing).
# A few more use synonyms – online campus, global campus, etc – in this way, such as Middlesex University (Computing – Global Campus).
# Many colleges use the phrase “virtual campus” at an institutional level. These include the ones already cited above: City of Bristol College, Glenrothes College, North West Institute of Further and Higher Education (now part of North West Regional College), St Helens College, and the Western Colleges Consortium (of four colleges around Bristol) – and some new arrivals such as Forth Valley College, Midlands Bible College and Wirral Metropolitan College. A number of these (new and old) used the phrase first because they bought the VLE called “Virtual Campus” from the firm Teknical, now taken over by Serco.
# Consortia users of the phrase include GIS Consortium, UNIGIS and Leeds Teacher Training (SCITT).
# Private (for profit) providers include Kaplan, in their guise as Kaplan Open Learning, an affiliate college of the University of Essex.
# Wider uses include Prisoners Education Trust and CiREM.
# Many universities use it – “out of scope” for us – to describe virtual tours of the physical campus. These include University of Aberdeen, University of Brighton, Lancaster University, University of Nottingham, University of Stirling, University of Warwick, University of Worcester and York St John University
# There are several university experiments with Second Life to model a physical campus which may in time extent into our kind of virtual campus functions. These include University of East London and University of Sussex.

===Spain===

A spanish definition of a virtual campus focuses on the virtual campus as a metaphore for the teaching, learning and research environment created by the convergence of new powerful instruction and communication technologies (Source: E-learning in Spain: The consolidation of the earliest take-off, Albert Sangra, Van Dusen (1997 ).

===Finland===

Finnish Virtual University, one the major projects of Finnish information society activities late 1990’s and the 2000’s in higher education field, defines its own portal as a virtual campus (Finnish: virtuaalikampus) for students, teachers, researchers and administrative staff working in online education The portal links together the virtual activities of the Finnish universities and provides services that can be used by all the participants.
SOCRATES Thematic Network Enhancing Engineering Education in Europe – E4 Survey of Virtual Campus and Virtual University Activities in Europe (2002) takes holistic approach and defines virtual campus as a broad conceptual framework for tools, services and facilities for students, faculty and staff. The word “campus” is used to denote the environment for the people who study, carry out research or work at the university. These elements include e learning, research activities, administrative services or other functions, i.e. complementing and supporting life on the physical university campus.
The approach taken by Finnish higher education society nowadays is a logic continuum of E4 definition, following the ideas of the National Information Society Policy for 2007 -2011 (The Ubiquitous Information Society Advisory Board): the key processes and interaction are largely based on the utilisation of electronic communications and information technology. ICT applications contribute to service provision and availability and create new operating models and new skills. The key elements are communications infrastructure, user-oriented services, development of digital contents and promotion of innovation activities and telework and development of science infrastructure. The use of ICT in teaching and studying is promoted. It is not seen as a separate target area as such but merely integrated into all processes of education and development of new electronic learning environment. This approach is often described as “ICT supported university” (Finnish: TVT-tuettu yliopisto) or “digitalization of the university” in university context (Sources: Ubiquitous Information Society, Action Programme 2008–2011 Government Resolution on the Objectives of the National Information Society Policy for 2007-2011 ).

===Netherlands===

In the Netherlands the term ‘virtual campus’ is synonym to ‘digital campus’ which is often referred to as ‘a digital working and learning environment’. This working and learning environment is seen from a educational perspective (not from a business point of view) and includes digital components (but is not solely an electronically environment). This definition comes close to what we nowadays call blended learning. A virtual campus encloses human – and technological- activities for educational purposes (based on: Van Elk, L. ELO-definiëring (2004). Digital University).
When a closer look is taken at the definition of a virtual campus from a business perspective then it matches almost everything that is related to e-learning in general. So a virtual campus is an environment in which individuals can attend practical training sessions, anyplace, anytime, anywhere. With just-in-time support, various learning materials (audio, video, written) and learning at own pace (based on website http://www.info2people.nl/page/VirtualCampus.htm ).
It is remarkable that the word ‘virtual campus’ is not used very much in the field of higher education. Although all universities have a virtual environment to offer, they most of the time use the expression ‘electronic learning environment’ or ‘portal’for virtual support services. It looks like the word ‘virtual campus’ is outdated.

===Italy===

Telematic University
In Italy further to the approval of the law n° 341/1990 on the restructuring of the university didactic rule (university autonomy), public-private consortia were established for distance teaching universities. Further to this law, in April 2005 the “Moratti-Stanca” Decree about “the criteria and procedures for accrediting distance education courses of the state and non state universities and of higher education institutions enables to issue academic titles, was enacted”.
This act, commonly called the “Moratti-Stanca” Decree, since it was enacted by the then Minister of Education, University and Research, Ms Letizia Moratti, with the then Minister for Innovation and Technologies, Mr. Lucio Stanca, concretely implements the institution of the Telematic universities, authorised to issue academic titles.
In Italy distance education courses are established and implemented by state and non state universities and make use of computer-based and Telematic technologies in accordance with the technical requirements indicated by the “Moratti-Stanca” Decree. These universities have to be organised “according to the most advanced computer-based and Telematic technologies and are aimed at issuing academic titles envisage by laws currently in force”. The academic titles “can be issued by university institutions promoted by public and private bodies and acknowledge according to the criteria and procedures envisaged by the Decree”. There are specific rules as it regards the acknowledgement of study courses. More specifically, it is envisaged a Charter of Services that envisages a didactic methodology and the conclusion of a specific contract with the student. The distance education courses are characterised, as stated in the Decree: “by the use of web-based connections for the use of training materials and the development of educational activities based on the interactivity with teachers-tutors and with the other students, by the use of PC , by the continuous monitoring of the learning progress according to the selective and rigorous criteria envisaged to assure the quality of the courses and the reliability of the educational offer'' […] "The didactic organisation of the distance education courses valorises potentials of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at the highest degree and more specifically as it regards multimediality and interactivity in order to favour customised study paths and to optimise learning”.
The Italian situation can be better understood if one takes into due account the recent history of distance higher education initiatives and the experience of renewal we had beginning Nineties with the Law n° 341/1990. The “Reform of the University Didactic Rules” that was started up caused the appearance of new higher education multimedia systems whose achievements only Consorzio NETTUNO, in which 12,000 students were enrolled, seemed to be able to build on.
With the “Moratti-Stanca” Decree of April 2003 it was established that the Minister of the University could acknowledge the establishment of new Telematic universities by decree. Starting from 2004 it acknowledged 11 universities as a whole. The path undertaken by the Italian legislator was full of initiatives, even if not all of them were up to the undertaking. Actually, not all the Telematic universities acknowledged by ministerial decree were able of carrying on proposals for distance education complying with the standards set a national level.

== Multicampus University (K.U.Leuven)==

The 'traditional university' Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ([[K.U.Leuven]]) in [[Belgium]] progressively organizes its educational support from a multicampus perspective.
In recent decades, the [[K.U.Leuven]] in Belgium has become a multicampus university. As a result of the historic expansion of the university its three groups of faculties have become separate entities, geographically spread over Leuven: Human Sciences are housed in the centre of the city, Exact Sciences in the east and Medical Sciences in the north. Since 1965, the university also has an additional campus in Kortrijk, in the west of Belgium. And in 2002, thirteen institutions of higher education in Flanders have joined forces with the K.U.Leuven in the [http://associatie.kuleuven.be/eng/ K.U.Leuven Association] in order to occupy a position of strength within the new European educational landscape and to work together towards quality improvements in education. This Association has 23 different campuses. In addition the K.U.Leuven profiles itself as an international university. The institution has agreements with various universities worldwide to enable and support a growing number student and staff exchanges between campuses. Lastly, with the introduction of ICT the university is also facing an extended form of multicampus education. Online networks of student groups and/or teaching staff – sometimes linked to but often independent from the institution – are emerging, in learning communities or communities of practice. Each participant in these networks can be considered a small virtual ‘campus’, learning from home, work or through a mobile device.

==== Enhancing or replacing physical mobility with virtual mobility====
The current structure of the university thus challenges the K.U.Leuven to organize and support its education with attention for communication and collaboration between the various campuses. Today this is most often realized through physical mobility: staff and/or student move between different locations. This is the case for interdisciplinary courses between Leuven’s three groups of faculties and for staff mobility between Kortrijk and Leuven. It is also the most common form for international exchanges. Yet the university is progressively supporting initiatives that replace or enhance physical with virtual mobility, seeking to integrate aspects of ‘virtual campuses’ into traditional education to stimulate collaboration between the sites of the Association, to support student and/or staff exchanges in Europe or in the world, to enhance communication with developing countries or to sustain virtual learning communities.

===== Joint course materials =====
At a basic level (virtual/blended) multicampus education in Leuven is revealed in initiatives that create, offer and localize joint course materials. While teaching staff and students remain at their own campus for the entire course, specific course modules learning materials are used that have been developed, at a distance, by an inter-institutional (multicampus) teaching team. These course materials are often offered on a common website, a databank or a virtual learning environment. Recently there are also teachers who (co-)develop or use ‘Open Educational Resources’.

===== Pooled infrastructure =====
Not only course materials are collaboratively created or shared. Also (laboratory)-infrastructure is shared between locations to avoid a double set up of equipment. In some cases this pooled infrastructure is also virtual. Some (dangerous) laboratory experiments or experiments that require students and staff to be at different locations (students watch a complex surgical operation) can now happen thanks to virtual support to bridge the distance between the actual experiment and the audience. The infrastructure of the experiment itself is in a limited number of cases entirely digital by means of a simulation on a common virtual platform.

===== Joint learning activities =====
Furthermore, multicampus education can be about joint learning activities. For the ‘Student Business Game’ for instance, students from different institutions f the Association K.U.Leuven play a business game on their own campus after which the winning teams compete with each other via videoconferencing before a jury of teaching and company staff. Joint learning activities can also be about e-coaching, about writing an academic paper at a distance or student placements. All activities invite multiple sites to collaborate in the creation, delivery or support of the activity, with the help of technology. At K.U.Leuven joint learning activities are particularly interesting for interdisciplinary modules, courses or programs, such as activities involving both learners studying medicine or nursing, industrial or civil engineering, etc.

===== Joint courses =====
Building on joint learning activities, another type of multicampus are joint courses. A joint course can be (a) a course developed by one campus (institution) and offered to students at another campus (institution), (b) a course developed by one institution and used but adapted by another institution or (c) a jointly developed course offered to students of all involved institutions (Haake et al., 2006). One variation of this type are virtual seminars: co-created or co-delivered seminars set up as a single course, or in a series of courses - broadcasted over multiple sites using ICT (videoconferencing, web conferencing, streaming, etc) . The KULeuven has a strong expertise and long tradition in organizing virtual seminars. The ‘Pentalfa’ project for instance is a multidisciplinary, post-graduate distance learning initiative of the Faculty of Medicine, aimed to offer (extra) training broadcasted to various hospitals of the Flemish Hospital Network K.U.Leuven. It is currently in its 8th year and there are plans to enhance the initiative with an international component. The university is also looking into the use of virtual seminars for knowledge exchange and networking between the institutions of the Association and beyond (society in general, companies, alumni, etc.).

===== Multicampus programmes =====
Next, multicampus education is also revealed in the offer of a complete, ‘multicampus’ programme, which many institutions can be contributing in. A number of Bachelors and Masters are already set up within the Association K.U.Leuven, involving multiple teaching teams from different institutions. The challenge is to streamline these programs around a common denominator, yet with respect to any local specificities of each campus involved. Virtual initiatives – joint learning materials, joint learning activities, joint courses – all play a vital part in this. Eventually a completely virtual multicampus programme comes close to the traditional form of distance education, as offered by the Open University for instance. From the perspective of more and better flexibility in education, it could be interesting to bring distance and regular education together. Regular programs could put forward a number of distance learning courses (and vice versa), in replacement of or as an enhancement to their offer: they could support or realize the transition between certain bachelors and masters in a flexible way, (work) students could enhance their own study package with a number of distance education courses. In Flanders, the current offers of both the regular universities and the Open University are still entirely separate from each other. Yet under certain conditions the Open University does already allow its students to take courses from other universities in addition to the curriculum of the own education. K.U.Leuven is currently studying the opportunity to present this interpretation of multicampus to its students.

===== Virtual support activities for physical mobility =====
Ultimately, multicampus education is also about a range of virtual support activities with regard to real, physical mobility. A large range of actions can be mentioned here. At the early, preparatory phase of a physical student (or staff) exchange, multicampus support can be given through the set up of community websites for future exchange students where they can meet current students who help them find housing, give them information etc. Within the Association K.U.Leuven such a platform is being created and tested for new foreign students to find a ‘(virtual) buddy’ . There is also the opportunity for teaching staff to meet the interested new students online, for a language ‘pre-selection’ or just a first get-together. This has been tested as a pilot in the [[REVE]] project for the Erasmus Mundus Master in Adapted Physical Activity (Rajagopal et. al., 2006; Bijnens H. et. al., 2006). After the exchange, the aforementioned communities can continue to live on as a virtual alumni platform; or students could be examined at a distance through virtual mobility (video communication).

=== Source ===
[[Bijnens]] H., '''[[De Gruyter]] J.''', [[Op de Beeck]] I., [[Bacsich]] P., [[Reynolds]] S., [[Van Petegem]] W., Re-defining virtual campuses: from a “fully-fletched” virtual campus to a blended model. Paper accepted for the EDEN conference. Lisbon, June 11-14, 2008.

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Historical overview

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=Historical Overview of the term Virtual Campus=

The concept of the virtual campus is in fact only around 15 years old, dating from roughly 1995. But the idea of virtual teaching had already emerged by the early 1700s. In the past, virtual teaching was carried out by posting text-books to a student, who read them and sent back assignments to be marked. Communication between the student and the academic was via correspondence – hence the phrases correspondence teaching and correspondence university. This approach in fact still happens in many institutions today, especially in less developed parts of the world. The concept of virtual teaching was first documented in 1728, when an advertisement appeared in the Boston Gazette from Caleb Phillipps advertising that any “Persons in the Country desirous to Learn this Art, may by having the several Lessons sent weekly to them, be as perfectly instructed as those that live in Boston”. Correspondence teaching evolved into the term distance education, first used in a University of Wisconsin-Madison catalogue for the 1892 school year. In 1905 the first true distance learning institution, the University of Wisconsin-Extension, was founded. Distance education is often seen as the precursor to online learning or technology-enhanced learning. In the Re.ViCa project we use the term virtual to mean enhanced by means of technology.

In Europe, the Open University of the UK is often seen as the first successful distance teaching university, using communication technology to achieve “education for all”. In the early 1970s, the use of television broadcasting for teaching in universities became popular, most notably in the UK Open University – originally called the “University of the Air”. Some TV-based universities still exist, like NETTUNO or the Shanghai Television University, but the story in recent years of broadcast TV use in universities (including open universities) has been one of a long, broad retreat masked by a number of temporary local advances.

Although television can serve as a democratic learning tool, it misses the characteristic of being interactive. For learning and teaching, two-way communication is very important. Hence other technologies were introduced to accommodate these needs, e.g., videoconferencing (VC). The first VC systems started to appear on the market operating over ISDN (digital telephony) networks, and expanded throughout the world in the 1980s. At the end of that decade, the use of email and bulletin boards became common to foster communication between distance learners and the staff teaching their courses.

In the early 1990s, the major breakthrough was the emergence of the internet and especially the World Wide Web (WWW). Teachers – or at least the early adopters among them – were soon experimenting with their own web sites to support their courses. These early adopters started to offer extra learning materials online. In some cases, these web sites evolved into real management systems, called course management systems (CMS), dealing with all organisational aspects of study, from student registration through automatic evaluation. Later more generic and commercial systems appeared, such as TopClass, WebCT, Blackboard, Docent, etc., which could serve first individual courses, and later on a broad spectrum of teaching and learning needs in educational settings.
Increasingly, people started to use the term virtual campus for this “place” where students and teachers shared information and communicated with each other (mainly through email and online materials). In the past, many other terms were prevalent, each with its own nuancing – e.g., online university, net university, etc.

The actual term virtual campus made its first appearance in Europe around the mid-1990s. Experts first heard it used in national programmes and strategic documents from the European Commission. More than 10 years ago, European policymakers started to stimulate the analysis of the potential of ICT to enhance learning in higher education. The strategic reports of the European Commission state that “new technologies” are of strategic value to build a “university of the future”. A direct result of these reports was a small number of projects focused on research into the possibility of setting up virtual European universities. One prominent example was the VirtUE (Virtual University for Europe) project; this ran from 1996 until 1998 under the TEN-ISDN Programme from the European Commission. The VirtUE project was proposed as a feasibility study for the development and implementation of a networked (or distributed, Euro-ISDN-based) virtual university for Europe in cooperation among classical universities, open universities, technology providers and telecom partners. Within this Virtual University, the VirTUE partnership identified three conceptual models of network-based educational services: Virtual Class and Virtual Campus; Network for Flexible Open and Distance Learning; and Network for On-demand Learning. In our search for definitions and background information we also found BENVIC (Benchmarking of Virtual Campuses), one of the earliest projects funded by the European Commission addressing the issue of benchmarking virtual campuses. In the BENVIC project, the virtual campus concept is referred to as “a specific format of distance education and on-line learning in which students, teaching staff and even university administrative and technical staff mainly ’meet’ or communicate through technical links”.

Next to BENVIC, through numerous other e-learning and Minerva programmes supported by the European Commission in the last decade, many institutions and organisations have been working on exploring and refining the concept of the virtual campus. Noteworthy results have been published, e.g., in the Manual for a Collaborative European Virtual University, the main outcome of the 2001–2003 cEVU (Collaborative European Virtual University) project. cEVU examined why a collaborative European virtual education offering would be beneficial to universities; how it should be structured and operate; and what should be put in place to create it. The report focuses on collaborative European virtual universities as one format of transnational virtual higher education. The Peer Review Handbook outcome of the 2005–2007 MASSIVE (Modelling Advice and Support Services to Integrate the Virtual Component in Higher Education) project – which designed a model of necessary support services for European traditional universities to successfully implement the virtual component of teaching – has also had an influence on our understanding of the virtual concept.

In June 1996, the term virtual campus emerged at an early workshop on this topic, at the EdMedia/EdTelecom conference in Boston, Massachusetts, organised at short notice by Robin Mason and Paul Bacsich (both then at the UK Open University). There was a workshop on virtual universities at Online Educa at Berlin in November 1996, and the topic featured largely in the Sheffield conference FLISH97 (Flexible Learning on the Information SuperHighway) in May 1997. Subsequently the topic exploded, and in the early 2000s conferences around the world featured the concept, sometimes to the exclusion of anything else. National governments followed this trend: for example, a task force of the Finnish government used the term virtual university in a draft strategy for Finnish education and research toward the information society. In the UK the phrase virtual campus became prominent around 1997, when various UK universities launched their own versions of a virtual campus.
The first experiments with the actual set-up of virtual campuses were initiated around the same time. In 1995 The Open University of Catalonia became the first virtual university in Europe, totally dependent on telecommunications and computers. The University of Oulu in Finland experimented with the set-up of a virtual campus. At the 1998 term-opening ceremony of Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), rector Paavo Uronen brought up the idea of “Finland’s Online University”. At the same time, the Minister of Education, Olli-Pekka Heinonen, suggested that the committee preparing the Information Strategy for Education and Research should include a proposal for a virtual university. The Portuguese government also launched a Virtual Campus project to promote the use of ICT in the classroom. The Swiss Virtual Campus programme was launched in 1999 by a joint proposal of the Swiss University Conference (SUC) and its planning commission to promote the use of new information and communication technologies in Swiss universities. Also in Europe, the Bavarian Virtual University was founded in 1999, and launched its first programme in May 2000. Hibernia College was set up in 2000 as Ireland’s first private online college; it began accepting in students in 2002, and has continued to grow ever since.

In Canada they started to experiment with remote “tele-education” even earlier. In 1993, Prof. Rory McGreal reports that they were setting up about 30 community learning sites and linking them to community colleges. Later on, as educators discovered the World Wide Web, they started to experiment with a computer-based audio graphic system where people would write on tablets and travel virtually to these community centres where students would study. These linked sites evolved into the tele-campus. Unfortunately when a new government took control, the funding ran out and the tele-campus basically faded out. In the meantime, Athabasca University created the Canadian Virtual University, a consortium of 11 universities across Canada.

Colorado University Online was one of the first fully accredited online education programmes in the USA, created in 1996 by the University of Colorado Denver (UC-Denver). CU Online allows students to pursue the same University of Colorado Denver courses and degrees as those attended by students on campus, taught by the same faculty members. Another early bird was The California Virtual University (CVU), launched in autumn 1997 with 700 courses, using funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. CVU was essentially a portal to the online courses offered by institutions from all segments of higher education across the state of California (i.e., the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and the independent colleges and universities of California). In 1999 – with 112 accredited public and private institutions offering more than 2,000 online courses through CVU – CVU was unable to secure the necessary funding to continue as an independent project. The California Virtual Campus (CVC) catalogue of distance education programmes and courses continues the work of CVU.

Even in less developed countries like Kenya, policymakers started to experiment with the set-up of virtual campuses and universities. One prominent example is the African Virtual University (AVU), initially launched in Washington in 1997 as a World Bank project. It was later transferred to Nairobi, Kenya in 2002.
The virtual campus concept has changed since it first came into use, because now more and more universities see the possibilities inherent in offering courses off campus. We see an increasing number of universities offering courses themselves on a virtual campus basis. Additionally, the term virtual campus is often used to describe international cooperation among universities from several countries. The advent of social software has enabled further opportunities for cooperation. While there are some institutions adopting fully online courses, it is now most common for courses to be blended.

In the last few years there has been an apparent decline in usage of the term virtual campus, but a continuing growth in the phenomenon. A number of other phrases have crept in over the years. A distance teaching university is essentially a correspondence university. An open university is in strict terms a university which has an open admissions policy (i.e., anyone can become a student, although not anyone can graduate – students still have to pass their courses), but increasingly this term is used to describe distance teaching universities in general, and even those which are not open in the open admissions sense. It is for reasons of this sort that the European Commission theorists coined the phrase open and distance learning (ODL), basically to avoid making difficult distinctions.
And in the early 2000s, the phrase borderless education (sometimes even borderless university) came into vogue, under the influence of Australian work, but the phrase has not been used in recent years.

===CONCLUSION===
This short introductory text about the history of virtual campuses is of course only a snapshot – it is not our intention to give a comprehensive overview of their history. The text is based on the other work carried out by our research team, and relies on interviews we did with 16 international experts, the Re.ViCa inventory of virtual campuses, in-depth country reports and a literature review.
Although the term virtual campus is 15 or so years old, it is still in its infancy and changing very quickly. Over the years, observers have noticed a shift of concepts: from the “well-defined”, clear, 100% online virtual campus, to virtual mobility, whereby the more traditional universities open their borders, collaborate supra-/intra-institutionally and often (inter)nationally, and/or involve non-traditional students through e-learning. Actually, there is no strict definition of virtual campus anymore. Every campus becomes a virtual campus. “Blended models” gain more and more interest and attention. All in all, there seems to be a common feeling that a redefinition of the virtual campus concept is necessary, in order for it to be applicable to the educational needs of today.
In the next chapter we describe how we would define the term virtual campus and how it is used in different European countries today.

===References===
Wikipedia, s.v. “History of virtual learning environments, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments (accessed November 2009).

Moore, M.G., Handbook of Distance Education (New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2007), http://books.google.be/books?id=MA9-Q73SeesC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false.

Van Petegem, W. & Kairamo, A., “Using and Choosing Next Educational Technologies”, in European Networking and Learning for the Future (Antwerpen: Garant, 2008).

Van den Branden, J. VanHeddegem, J. & Van der Perre, G., EuroPACE Models: in European Networking and Learning for the Future (Antwerpen: Garant, 2008).

Bijnens, H., Op de Beeck, I., De Gruyter, J., et al., “Reviewing Traces of Virtual Campuses: From a Fully Online Virtual Campus to a Blended Model”, in Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies, eds. Stansfield, M. & Connolly. T. (University of Paisley: IGI Global, 2009).

Benchmarking of Virtual Campuses (BENVIC), “What is a Virtual Campus?”, 2002, http://www.benvic.odl.org.

EuroPACE, cEVU (2009), http://www.europace.org/rdcevu.php

Centro de Enseñanzas Virtuales de la Universidad de Granada, MASSIVE, http://cevug.ugr.es/massive.

Re.ViCa wiki, “Finnish HEIs in the information society” http://www.virtualschoolsandcolleges.eu/index.php/Finland (accessed November 2009).

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Historical overview

2009-11-26T12:59:17Z

Biekeschreurs: /* References */

=Historical Overview of the term Virtual Campus=

The concept of the virtual campus is in fact only around 15 years old, dating from roughly 1995. But the idea of virtual teaching had already emerged by the early 1700s. In the past, virtual teaching was carried out by posting text-books to a student, who read them and sent back assignments to be marked. Communication between the student and the academic was via correspondence – hence the phrases correspondence teaching and correspondence university. This approach in fact still happens in many institutions today, especially in less developed parts of the world. The concept of virtual teaching was first documented in 1728, when an advertisement appeared in the Boston Gazette from Caleb Phillipps advertising that any “Persons in the Country desirous to Learn this Art, may by having the several Lessons sent weekly to them, be as perfectly instructed as those that live in Boston”. Correspondence teaching evolved into the term distance education, first used in a University of Wisconsin-Madison catalogue for the 1892 school year. In 1905 the first true distance learning institution, the University of Wisconsin-Extension, was founded. Distance education is often seen as the precursor to online learning or technology-enhanced learning. In the Re.ViCa project we use the term virtual to mean enhanced by means of technology.
In Europe, the Open University of the UK is often seen as the first successful distance teaching university, using communication technology to achieve “education for all”. In the early 1970s, the use of television broadcasting for teaching in universities became popular, most notably in the UK Open University – originally called the “University of the Air”. Some TV-based universities still exist, like NETTUNO or the Shanghai Television University, but the story in recent years of broadcast TV use in universities (including open universities) has been one of a long, broad retreat masked by a number of temporary local advances.
Although television can serve as a democratic learning tool, it misses the characteristic of being interactive. For learning and teaching, two-way communication is very important. Hence other technologies were introduced to accommodate these needs, e.g., videoconferencing (VC). The first VC systems started to appear on the market operating over ISDN (digital telephony) networks, and expanded throughout the world in the 1980s. At the end of that decade, the use of email and bulletin boards became common to foster communication between distance learners and the staff teaching their courses.
In the early 1990s, the major breakthrough was the emergence of the internet and especially the World Wide Web (WWW). Teachers – or at least the early adopters among them – were soon experimenting with their own web sites to support their courses. These early adopters started to offer extra learning materials online. In some cases, these web sites evolved into real management systems, called course management systems (CMS), dealing with all organisational aspects of study, from student registration through automatic evaluation. Later more generic and commercial systems appeared, such as TopClass, WebCT, Blackboard, Docent, etc., which could serve first individual courses, and later on a broad spectrum of teaching and learning needs in educational settings.
Increasingly, people started to use the term virtual campus for this “place” where students and teachers shared information and communicated with each other (mainly through email and online materials). In the past, many other terms were prevalent, each with its own nuancing – e.g., online university, net university, etc.
The actual term virtual campus made its first appearance in Europe around the mid-1990s. Experts first heard it used in national programmes and strategic documents from the European Commission. More than 10 years ago, European policymakers started to stimulate the analysis of the potential of ICT to enhance learning in higher education. The strategic reports of the European Commission state that “new technologies” are of strategic value to build a “university of the future”. A direct result of these reports was a small number of projects focused on research into the possibility of setting up virtual European universities. One prominent example was the VirtUE (Virtual University for Europe) project; this ran from 1996 until 1998 under the TEN-ISDN Programme from the European Commission. The VirtUE project was proposed as a feasibility study for the development and implementation of a networked (or distributed, Euro-ISDN-based) virtual university for Europe in cooperation among classical universities, open universities, technology providers and telecom partners. Within this Virtual University, the VirTUE partnership identified three conceptual models of network-based educational services: Virtual Class and Virtual Campus; Network for Flexible Open and Distance Learning; and Network for On-demand Learning. In our search for definitions and background information we also found BENVIC (Benchmarking of Virtual Campuses), one of the earliest projects funded by the European Commission addressing the issue of benchmarking virtual campuses. In the BENVIC project, the virtual campus concept is referred to as “a specific format of distance education and on-line learning in which students, teaching staff and even university administrative and technical staff mainly ’meet’ or communicate through technical links”.
Next to BENVIC, through numerous other e-learning and Minerva programmes supported by the European Commission in the last decade, many institutions and organisations have been working on exploring and refining the concept of the virtual campus. Noteworthy results have been published, e.g., in the Manual for a Collaborative European Virtual University, the main outcome of the 2001–2003 cEVU (Collaborative European Virtual University) project. cEVU examined why a collaborative European virtual education offering would be beneficial to universities; how it should be structured and operate; and what should be put in place to create it. The report focuses on collaborative European virtual universities as one format of transnational virtual higher education. The Peer Review Handbook outcome of the 2005–2007 MASSIVE (Modelling Advice and Support Services to Integrate the Virtual Component in Higher Education) project – which designed a model of necessary support services for European traditional universities to successfully implement the virtual component of teaching – has also had an influence on our understanding of the virtual concept.
In June 1996, the term virtual campus emerged at an early workshop on this topic, at the EdMedia/EdTelecom conference in Boston, Massachusetts, organised at short notice by Robin Mason and Paul Bacsich (both then at the UK Open University). There was a workshop on virtual universities at Online Educa at Berlin in November 1996, and the topic featured largely in the Sheffield conference FLISH97 (Flexible Learning on the Information SuperHighway) in May 1997. Subsequently the topic exploded, and in the early 2000s conferences around the world featured the concept, sometimes to the exclusion of anything else. National governments followed this trend: for example, a task force of the Finnish government used the term virtual university in a draft strategy for Finnish education and research toward the information society. In the UK the phrase virtual campus became prominent around 1997, when various UK universities launched their own versions of a virtual campus.
The first experiments with the actual set-up of virtual campuses were initiated around the same time. In 1995 The Open University of Catalonia became the first virtual university in Europe, totally dependent on telecommunications and computers. The University of Oulu in Finland experimented with the set-up of a virtual campus. At the 1998 term-opening ceremony of Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), rector Paavo Uronen brought up the idea of “Finland’s Online University”. At the same time, the Minister of Education, Olli-Pekka Heinonen, suggested that the committee preparing the Information Strategy for Education and Research should include a proposal for a virtual university. The Portuguese government also launched a Virtual Campus project to promote the use of ICT in the classroom. The Swiss Virtual Campus programme was launched in 1999 by a joint proposal of the Swiss University Conference (SUC) and its planning commission to promote the use of new information and communication technologies in Swiss universities. Also in Europe, the Bavarian Virtual University was founded in 1999, and launched its first programme in May 2000. Hibernia College was set up in 2000 as Ireland’s first private online college; it began accepting in students in 2002, and has continued to grow ever since.
In Canada they started to experiment with remote “tele-education” even earlier. In 1993, Prof. Rory McGreal reports that they were setting up about 30 community learning sites and linking them to community colleges. Later on, as educators discovered the World Wide Web, they started to experiment with a computer-based audio graphic system where people would write on tablets and travel virtually to these community centres where students would study. These linked sites evolved into the tele-campus. Unfortunately when a new government took control, the funding ran out and the tele-campus basically faded out. In the meantime, Athabasca University created the Canadian Virtual University, a consortium of 11 universities across Canada.
Colorado University Online was one of the first fully accredited online education programmes in the USA, created in 1996 by the University of Colorado Denver (UC-Denver). CU Online allows students to pursue the same University of Colorado Denver courses and degrees as those attended by students on campus, taught by the same faculty members. Another early bird was The California Virtual University (CVU), launched in autumn 1997 with 700 courses, using funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. CVU was essentially a portal to the online courses offered by institutions from all segments of higher education across the state of California (i.e., the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and the independent colleges and universities of California). In 1999 – with 112 accredited public and private institutions offering more than 2,000 online courses through CVU – CVU was unable to secure the necessary funding to continue as an independent project. The California Virtual Campus (CVC) catalogue of distance education programmes and courses continues the work of CVU.
Even in less developed countries like Kenya, policymakers started to experiment with the set-up of virtual campuses and universities. One prominent example is the African Virtual University (AVU), initially launched in Washington in 1997 as a World Bank project. It was later transferred to Nairobi, Kenya in 2002.
The virtual campus concept has changed since it first came into use, because now more and more universities see the possibilities inherent in offering courses off campus. We see an increasing number of universities offering courses themselves on a virtual campus basis. Additionally, the term virtual campus is often used to describe international cooperation among universities from several countries. The advent of social software has enabled further opportunities for cooperation. While there are some institutions adopting fully online courses, it is now most common for courses to be blended.
In the last few years there has been an apparent decline in usage of the term virtual campus, but a continuing growth in the phenomenon. A number of other phrases have crept in over the years. A distance teaching university is essentially a correspondence university. An open university is in strict terms a university which has an open admissions policy (i.e., anyone can become a student, although not anyone can graduate – students still have to pass their courses), but increasingly this term is used to describe distance teaching universities in general, and even those which are not open in the open admissions sense. It is for reasons of this sort that the European Commission theorists coined the phrase open and distance learning (ODL), basically to avoid making difficult distinctions.
And in the early 2000s, the phrase borderless education (sometimes even borderless university) came into vogue, under the influence of Australian work, but the phrase has not been used in recent years.

===CONCLUSION===
This short introductory text about the history of virtual campuses is of course only a snapshot – it is not our intention to give a comprehensive overview of their history. The text is based on the other work carried out by our research team, and relies on interviews we did with 16 international experts, the Re.ViCa inventory of virtual campuses, in-depth country reports and a literature review.
Although the term virtual campus is 15 or so years old, it is still in its infancy and changing very quickly. Over the years, observers have noticed a shift of concepts: from the “well-defined”, clear, 100% online virtual campus, to virtual mobility, whereby the more traditional universities open their borders, collaborate supra-/intra-institutionally and often (inter)nationally, and/or involve non-traditional students through e-learning. Actually, there is no strict definition of virtual campus anymore. Every campus becomes a virtual campus. “Blended models” gain more and more interest and attention. All in all, there seems to be a common feeling that a redefinition of the virtual campus concept is necessary, in order for it to be applicable to the educational needs of today.
In the next chapter we describe how we would define the term virtual campus and how it is used in different European countries today.

===References===
Wikipedia, s.v. “History of virtual learning environments, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments (accessed November 2009).

Moore, M.G., Handbook of Distance Education (New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2007), http://books.google.be/books?id=MA9-Q73SeesC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false.

Van Petegem, W. & Kairamo, A., “Using and Choosing Next Educational Technologies”, in European Networking and Learning for the Future (Antwerpen: Garant, 2008).

Van den Branden, J. VanHeddegem, J. & Van der Perre, G., EuroPACE Models: in European Networking and Learning for the Future (Antwerpen: Garant, 2008).

Bijnens, H., Op de Beeck, I., De Gruyter, J., et al., “Reviewing Traces of Virtual Campuses: From a Fully Online Virtual Campus to a Blended Model”, in Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies, eds. Stansfield, M. & Connolly. T. (University of Paisley: IGI Global, 2009).

Benchmarking of Virtual Campuses (BENVIC), “What is a Virtual Campus?”, 2002, http://www.benvic.odl.org.

EuroPACE, cEVU (2009), http://www.europace.org/rdcevu.php

Centro de Enseñanzas Virtuales de la Universidad de Granada, MASSIVE, http://cevug.ugr.es/massive.

Re.ViCa wiki, “Finnish HEIs in the information society” http://www.virtualschoolsandcolleges.eu/index.php/Finland (accessed November 2009).

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Historical overview

2009-11-26T12:58:31Z

Biekeschreurs: /* Historical Overview of the term Virtual Campus= */

=Historical Overview of the term Virtual Campus=

The concept of the virtual campus is in fact only around 15 years old, dating from roughly 1995. But the idea of virtual teaching had already emerged by the early 1700s. In the past, virtual teaching was carried out by posting text-books to a student, who read them and sent back assignments to be marked. Communication between the student and the academic was via correspondence – hence the phrases correspondence teaching and correspondence university. This approach in fact still happens in many institutions today, especially in less developed parts of the world. The concept of virtual teaching was first documented in 1728, when an advertisement appeared in the Boston Gazette from Caleb Phillipps advertising that any “Persons in the Country desirous to Learn this Art, may by having the several Lessons sent weekly to them, be as perfectly instructed as those that live in Boston”. Correspondence teaching evolved into the term distance education, first used in a University of Wisconsin-Madison catalogue for the 1892 school year. In 1905 the first true distance learning institution, the University of Wisconsin-Extension, was founded. Distance education is often seen as the precursor to online learning or technology-enhanced learning. In the Re.ViCa project we use the term virtual to mean enhanced by means of technology.
In Europe, the Open University of the UK is often seen as the first successful distance teaching university, using communication technology to achieve “education for all”. In the early 1970s, the use of television broadcasting for teaching in universities became popular, most notably in the UK Open University – originally called the “University of the Air”. Some TV-based universities still exist, like NETTUNO or the Shanghai Television University, but the story in recent years of broadcast TV use in universities (including open universities) has been one of a long, broad retreat masked by a number of temporary local advances.
Although television can serve as a democratic learning tool, it misses the characteristic of being interactive. For learning and teaching, two-way communication is very important. Hence other technologies were introduced to accommodate these needs, e.g., videoconferencing (VC). The first VC systems started to appear on the market operating over ISDN (digital telephony) networks, and expanded throughout the world in the 1980s. At the end of that decade, the use of email and bulletin boards became common to foster communication between distance learners and the staff teaching their courses.
In the early 1990s, the major breakthrough was the emergence of the internet and especially the World Wide Web (WWW). Teachers – or at least the early adopters among them – were soon experimenting with their own web sites to support their courses. These early adopters started to offer extra learning materials online. In some cases, these web sites evolved into real management systems, called course management systems (CMS), dealing with all organisational aspects of study, from student registration through automatic evaluation. Later more generic and commercial systems appeared, such as TopClass, WebCT, Blackboard, Docent, etc., which could serve first individual courses, and later on a broad spectrum of teaching and learning needs in educational settings.
Increasingly, people started to use the term virtual campus for this “place” where students and teachers shared information and communicated with each other (mainly through email and online materials). In the past, many other terms were prevalent, each with its own nuancing – e.g., online university, net university, etc.
The actual term virtual campus made its first appearance in Europe around the mid-1990s. Experts first heard it used in national programmes and strategic documents from the European Commission. More than 10 years ago, European policymakers started to stimulate the analysis of the potential of ICT to enhance learning in higher education. The strategic reports of the European Commission state that “new technologies” are of strategic value to build a “university of the future”. A direct result of these reports was a small number of projects focused on research into the possibility of setting up virtual European universities. One prominent example was the VirtUE (Virtual University for Europe) project; this ran from 1996 until 1998 under the TEN-ISDN Programme from the European Commission. The VirtUE project was proposed as a feasibility study for the development and implementation of a networked (or distributed, Euro-ISDN-based) virtual university for Europe in cooperation among classical universities, open universities, technology providers and telecom partners. Within this Virtual University, the VirTUE partnership identified three conceptual models of network-based educational services: Virtual Class and Virtual Campus; Network for Flexible Open and Distance Learning; and Network for On-demand Learning. In our search for definitions and background information we also found BENVIC (Benchmarking of Virtual Campuses), one of the earliest projects funded by the European Commission addressing the issue of benchmarking virtual campuses. In the BENVIC project, the virtual campus concept is referred to as “a specific format of distance education and on-line learning in which students, teaching staff and even university administrative and technical staff mainly ’meet’ or communicate through technical links”.
Next to BENVIC, through numerous other e-learning and Minerva programmes supported by the European Commission in the last decade, many institutions and organisations have been working on exploring and refining the concept of the virtual campus. Noteworthy results have been published, e.g., in the Manual for a Collaborative European Virtual University, the main outcome of the 2001–2003 cEVU (Collaborative European Virtual University) project. cEVU examined why a collaborative European virtual education offering would be beneficial to universities; how it should be structured and operate; and what should be put in place to create it. The report focuses on collaborative European virtual universities as one format of transnational virtual higher education. The Peer Review Handbook outcome of the 2005–2007 MASSIVE (Modelling Advice and Support Services to Integrate the Virtual Component in Higher Education) project – which designed a model of necessary support services for European traditional universities to successfully implement the virtual component of teaching – has also had an influence on our understanding of the virtual concept.
In June 1996, the term virtual campus emerged at an early workshop on this topic, at the EdMedia/EdTelecom conference in Boston, Massachusetts, organised at short notice by Robin Mason and Paul Bacsich (both then at the UK Open University). There was a workshop on virtual universities at Online Educa at Berlin in November 1996, and the topic featured largely in the Sheffield conference FLISH97 (Flexible Learning on the Information SuperHighway) in May 1997. Subsequently the topic exploded, and in the early 2000s conferences around the world featured the concept, sometimes to the exclusion of anything else. National governments followed this trend: for example, a task force of the Finnish government used the term virtual university in a draft strategy for Finnish education and research toward the information society. In the UK the phrase virtual campus became prominent around 1997, when various UK universities launched their own versions of a virtual campus.
The first experiments with the actual set-up of virtual campuses were initiated around the same time. In 1995 The Open University of Catalonia became the first virtual university in Europe, totally dependent on telecommunications and computers. The University of Oulu in Finland experimented with the set-up of a virtual campus. At the 1998 term-opening ceremony of Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), rector Paavo Uronen brought up the idea of “Finland’s Online University”. At the same time, the Minister of Education, Olli-Pekka Heinonen, suggested that the committee preparing the Information Strategy for Education and Research should include a proposal for a virtual university. The Portuguese government also launched a Virtual Campus project to promote the use of ICT in the classroom. The Swiss Virtual Campus programme was launched in 1999 by a joint proposal of the Swiss University Conference (SUC) and its planning commission to promote the use of new information and communication technologies in Swiss universities. Also in Europe, the Bavarian Virtual University was founded in 1999, and launched its first programme in May 2000. Hibernia College was set up in 2000 as Ireland’s first private online college; it began accepting in students in 2002, and has continued to grow ever since.
In Canada they started to experiment with remote “tele-education” even earlier. In 1993, Prof. Rory McGreal reports that they were setting up about 30 community learning sites and linking them to community colleges. Later on, as educators discovered the World Wide Web, they started to experiment with a computer-based audio graphic system where people would write on tablets and travel virtually to these community centres where students would study. These linked sites evolved into the tele-campus. Unfortunately when a new government took control, the funding ran out and the tele-campus basically faded out. In the meantime, Athabasca University created the Canadian Virtual University, a consortium of 11 universities across Canada.
Colorado University Online was one of the first fully accredited online education programmes in the USA, created in 1996 by the University of Colorado Denver (UC-Denver). CU Online allows students to pursue the same University of Colorado Denver courses and degrees as those attended by students on campus, taught by the same faculty members. Another early bird was The California Virtual University (CVU), launched in autumn 1997 with 700 courses, using funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. CVU was essentially a portal to the online courses offered by institutions from all segments of higher education across the state of California (i.e., the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and the independent colleges and universities of California). In 1999 – with 112 accredited public and private institutions offering more than 2,000 online courses through CVU – CVU was unable to secure the necessary funding to continue as an independent project. The California Virtual Campus (CVC) catalogue of distance education programmes and courses continues the work of CVU.
Even in less developed countries like Kenya, policymakers started to experiment with the set-up of virtual campuses and universities. One prominent example is the African Virtual University (AVU), initially launched in Washington in 1997 as a World Bank project. It was later transferred to Nairobi, Kenya in 2002.
The virtual campus concept has changed since it first came into use, because now more and more universities see the possibilities inherent in offering courses off campus. We see an increasing number of universities offering courses themselves on a virtual campus basis. Additionally, the term virtual campus is often used to describe international cooperation among universities from several countries. The advent of social software has enabled further opportunities for cooperation. While there are some institutions adopting fully online courses, it is now most common for courses to be blended.
In the last few years there has been an apparent decline in usage of the term virtual campus, but a continuing growth in the phenomenon. A number of other phrases have crept in over the years. A distance teaching university is essentially a correspondence university. An open university is in strict terms a university which has an open admissions policy (i.e., anyone can become a student, although not anyone can graduate – students still have to pass their courses), but increasingly this term is used to describe distance teaching universities in general, and even those which are not open in the open admissions sense. It is for reasons of this sort that the European Commission theorists coined the phrase open and distance learning (ODL), basically to avoid making difficult distinctions.
And in the early 2000s, the phrase borderless education (sometimes even borderless university) came into vogue, under the influence of Australian work, but the phrase has not been used in recent years.

===CONCLUSION===
This short introductory text about the history of virtual campuses is of course only a snapshot – it is not our intention to give a comprehensive overview of their history. The text is based on the other work carried out by our research team, and relies on interviews we did with 16 international experts, the Re.ViCa inventory of virtual campuses, in-depth country reports and a literature review.
Although the term virtual campus is 15 or so years old, it is still in its infancy and changing very quickly. Over the years, observers have noticed a shift of concepts: from the “well-defined”, clear, 100% online virtual campus, to virtual mobility, whereby the more traditional universities open their borders, collaborate supra-/intra-institutionally and often (inter)nationally, and/or involve non-traditional students through e-learning. Actually, there is no strict definition of virtual campus anymore. Every campus becomes a virtual campus. “Blended models” gain more and more interest and attention. All in all, there seems to be a common feeling that a redefinition of the virtual campus concept is necessary, in order for it to be applicable to the educational needs of today.
In the next chapter we describe how we would define the term virtual campus and how it is used in different European countries today.

===References===
Wikipedia, s.v. “History of virtual learning environments”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments (accessed November 2009).
Moore, M.G., Handbook of Distance Education (New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2007), http://books.google.be/books?id=MA9-Q73SeesC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
Van Petegem, W. & Kairamo, A., “Using and Choosing Next Educational Technologies”, in European Networking and Learning for the Future (Antwerpen: Garant, 2008).
Van den Branden, J. VanHeddegem, J. & Van der Perre, G., EuroPACE Models: in European Networking and Learning for the Future (Antwerpen: Garant, 2008).
Bijnens, H., Op de Beeck, I., De Gruyter, J., et al., “Reviewing Traces of Virtual Campuses: From a Fully Online Virtual Campus to a Blended Model”, in Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies, eds. Stansfield, M. & Connolly. T. (University of Paisley: IGI Global, 2009).
Benchmarking of Virtual Campuses (BENVIC), “What is a Virtual Campus?”, 2002, http://www.benvic.odl.org.
EuroPACE, cEVU (2009), http://www.europace.org/rdcevu.php
Centro de Enseñanzas Virtuales de la Universidad de Granada, MASSIVE, http://cevug.ugr.es/massive.
Re.ViCa wiki, “Finnish HEIs in the information society” http://www.virtualschoolsandcolleges.eu/index.php/Finland (accessed November 2009).

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Historical overview

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=Historical Overview of the term Virtual Campus==

The concept of the virtual campus is in fact only around 15 years old, dating from roughly 1995. But the idea of virtual teaching had already emerged by the early 1700s. In the past, virtual teaching was carried out by posting text-books to a student, who read them and sent back assignments to be marked. Communication between the student and the academic was via correspondence – hence the phrases correspondence teaching and correspondence university. This approach in fact still happens in many institutions today, especially in less developed parts of the world. The concept of virtual teaching was first documented in 1728, when an advertisement appeared in the Boston Gazette from Caleb Phillipps advertising that any “Persons in the Country desirous to Learn this Art, may by having the several Lessons sent weekly to them, be as perfectly instructed as those that live in Boston”. Correspondence teaching evolved into the term distance education, first used in a University of Wisconsin-Madison catalogue for the 1892 school year. In 1905 the first true distance learning institution, the University of Wisconsin-Extension, was founded. Distance education is often seen as the precursor to online learning or technology-enhanced learning. In the Re.ViCa project we use the term virtual to mean enhanced by means of technology.
In Europe, the Open University of the UK is often seen as the first successful distance teaching university, using communication technology to achieve “education for all”. In the early 1970s, the use of television broadcasting for teaching in universities became popular, most notably in the UK Open University – originally called the “University of the Air”. Some TV-based universities still exist, like NETTUNO or the Shanghai Television University, but the story in recent years of broadcast TV use in universities (including open universities) has been one of a long, broad retreat masked by a number of temporary local advances.
Although television can serve as a democratic learning tool, it misses the characteristic of being interactive. For learning and teaching, two-way communication is very important. Hence other technologies were introduced to accommodate these needs, e.g., videoconferencing (VC). The first VC systems started to appear on the market operating over ISDN (digital telephony) networks, and expanded throughout the world in the 1980s. At the end of that decade, the use of email and bulletin boards became common to foster communication between distance learners and the staff teaching their courses.
In the early 1990s, the major breakthrough was the emergence of the internet and especially the World Wide Web (WWW). Teachers – or at least the early adopters among them – were soon experimenting with their own web sites to support their courses. These early adopters started to offer extra learning materials online. In some cases, these web sites evolved into real management systems, called course management systems (CMS), dealing with all organisational aspects of study, from student registration through automatic evaluation. Later more generic and commercial systems appeared, such as TopClass, WebCT, Blackboard, Docent, etc., which could serve first individual courses, and later on a broad spectrum of teaching and learning needs in educational settings.
Increasingly, people started to use the term virtual campus for this “place” where students and teachers shared information and communicated with each other (mainly through email and online materials). In the past, many other terms were prevalent, each with its own nuancing – e.g., online university, net university, etc.
The actual term virtual campus made its first appearance in Europe around the mid-1990s. Experts first heard it used in national programmes and strategic documents from the European Commission. More than 10 years ago, European policymakers started to stimulate the analysis of the potential of ICT to enhance learning in higher education. The strategic reports of the European Commission state that “new technologies” are of strategic value to build a “university of the future”. A direct result of these reports was a small number of projects focused on research into the possibility of setting up virtual European universities. One prominent example was the VirtUE (Virtual University for Europe) project; this ran from 1996 until 1998 under the TEN-ISDN Programme from the European Commission. The VirtUE project was proposed as a feasibility study for the development and implementation of a networked (or distributed, Euro-ISDN-based) virtual university for Europe in cooperation among classical universities, open universities, technology providers and telecom partners. Within this Virtual University, the VirTUE partnership identified three conceptual models of network-based educational services: Virtual Class and Virtual Campus; Network for Flexible Open and Distance Learning; and Network for On-demand Learning. In our search for definitions and background information we also found BENVIC (Benchmarking of Virtual Campuses), one of the earliest projects funded by the European Commission addressing the issue of benchmarking virtual campuses. In the BENVIC project, the virtual campus concept is referred to as “a specific format of distance education and on-line learning in which students, teaching staff and even university administrative and technical staff mainly ’meet’ or communicate through technical links”.
Next to BENVIC, through numerous other e-learning and Minerva programmes supported by the European Commission in the last decade, many institutions and organisations have been working on exploring and refining the concept of the virtual campus. Noteworthy results have been published, e.g., in the Manual for a Collaborative European Virtual University, the main outcome of the 2001–2003 cEVU (Collaborative European Virtual University) project. cEVU examined why a collaborative European virtual education offering would be beneficial to universities; how it should be structured and operate; and what should be put in place to create it. The report focuses on collaborative European virtual universities as one format of transnational virtual higher education. The Peer Review Handbook outcome of the 2005–2007 MASSIVE (Modelling Advice and Support Services to Integrate the Virtual Component in Higher Education) project – which designed a model of necessary support services for European traditional universities to successfully implement the virtual component of teaching – has also had an influence on our understanding of the virtual concept.
In June 1996, the term virtual campus emerged at an early workshop on this topic, at the EdMedia/EdTelecom conference in Boston, Massachusetts, organised at short notice by Robin Mason and Paul Bacsich (both then at the UK Open University). There was a workshop on virtual universities at Online Educa at Berlin in November 1996, and the topic featured largely in the Sheffield conference FLISH97 (Flexible Learning on the Information SuperHighway) in May 1997. Subsequently the topic exploded, and in the early 2000s conferences around the world featured the concept, sometimes to the exclusion of anything else. National governments followed this trend: for example, a task force of the Finnish government used the term virtual university in a draft strategy for Finnish education and research toward the information society. In the UK the phrase virtual campus became prominent around 1997, when various UK universities launched their own versions of a virtual campus.
The first experiments with the actual set-up of virtual campuses were initiated around the same time. In 1995 The Open University of Catalonia became the first virtual university in Europe, totally dependent on telecommunications and computers. The University of Oulu in Finland experimented with the set-up of a virtual campus. At the 1998 term-opening ceremony of Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), rector Paavo Uronen brought up the idea of “Finland’s Online University”. At the same time, the Minister of Education, Olli-Pekka Heinonen, suggested that the committee preparing the Information Strategy for Education and Research should include a proposal for a virtual university. The Portuguese government also launched a Virtual Campus project to promote the use of ICT in the classroom. The Swiss Virtual Campus programme was launched in 1999 by a joint proposal of the Swiss University Conference (SUC) and its planning commission to promote the use of new information and communication technologies in Swiss universities. Also in Europe, the Bavarian Virtual University was founded in 1999, and launched its first programme in May 2000. Hibernia College was set up in 2000 as Ireland’s first private online college; it began accepting in students in 2002, and has continued to grow ever since.
In Canada they started to experiment with remote “tele-education” even earlier. In 1993, Prof. Rory McGreal reports that they were setting up about 30 community learning sites and linking them to community colleges. Later on, as educators discovered the World Wide Web, they started to experiment with a computer-based audio graphic system where people would write on tablets and travel virtually to these community centres where students would study. These linked sites evolved into the tele-campus. Unfortunately when a new government took control, the funding ran out and the tele-campus basically faded out. In the meantime, Athabasca University created the Canadian Virtual University, a consortium of 11 universities across Canada.
Colorado University Online was one of the first fully accredited online education programmes in the USA, created in 1996 by the University of Colorado Denver (UC-Denver). CU Online allows students to pursue the same University of Colorado Denver courses and degrees as those attended by students on campus, taught by the same faculty members. Another early bird was The California Virtual University (CVU), launched in autumn 1997 with 700 courses, using funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. CVU was essentially a portal to the online courses offered by institutions from all segments of higher education across the state of California (i.e., the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and the independent colleges and universities of California). In 1999 – with 112 accredited public and private institutions offering more than 2,000 online courses through CVU – CVU was unable to secure the necessary funding to continue as an independent project. The California Virtual Campus (CVC) catalogue of distance education programmes and courses continues the work of CVU.
Even in less developed countries like Kenya, policymakers started to experiment with the set-up of virtual campuses and universities. One prominent example is the African Virtual University (AVU), initially launched in Washington in 1997 as a World Bank project. It was later transferred to Nairobi, Kenya in 2002.
The virtual campus concept has changed since it first came into use, because now more and more universities see the possibilities inherent in offering courses off campus. We see an increasing number of universities offering courses themselves on a virtual campus basis. Additionally, the term virtual campus is often used to describe international cooperation among universities from several countries. The advent of social software has enabled further opportunities for cooperation. While there are some institutions adopting fully online courses, it is now most common for courses to be blended.
In the last few years there has been an apparent decline in usage of the term virtual campus, but a continuing growth in the phenomenon. A number of other phrases have crept in over the years. A distance teaching university is essentially a correspondence university. An open university is in strict terms a university which has an open admissions policy (i.e., anyone can become a student, although not anyone can graduate – students still have to pass their courses), but increasingly this term is used to describe distance teaching universities in general, and even those which are not open in the open admissions sense. It is for reasons of this sort that the European Commission theorists coined the phrase open and distance learning (ODL), basically to avoid making difficult distinctions.
And in the early 2000s, the phrase borderless education (sometimes even borderless university) came into vogue, under the influence of Australian work, but the phrase has not been used in recent years.

===CONCLUSION===
This short introductory text about the history of virtual campuses is of course only a snapshot – it is not our intention to give a comprehensive overview of their history. The text is based on the other work carried out by our research team, and relies on interviews we did with 16 international experts, the Re.ViCa inventory of virtual campuses, in-depth country reports and a literature review.
Although the term virtual campus is 15 or so years old, it is still in its infancy and changing very quickly. Over the years, observers have noticed a shift of concepts: from the “well-defined”, clear, 100% online virtual campus, to virtual mobility, whereby the more traditional universities open their borders, collaborate supra-/intra-institutionally and often (inter)nationally, and/or involve non-traditional students through e-learning. Actually, there is no strict definition of virtual campus anymore. Every campus becomes a virtual campus. “Blended models” gain more and more interest and attention. All in all, there seems to be a common feeling that a redefinition of the virtual campus concept is necessary, in order for it to be applicable to the educational needs of today.
In the next chapter we describe how we would define the term virtual campus and how it is used in different European countries today.

===References===
Wikipedia, s.v. “History of virtual learning environments”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments (accessed November 2009).
Moore, M.G., Handbook of Distance Education (New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2007), http://books.google.be/books?id=MA9-Q73SeesC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
Van Petegem, W. & Kairamo, A., “Using and Choosing Next Educational Technologies”, in European Networking and Learning for the Future (Antwerpen: Garant, 2008).
Van den Branden, J. VanHeddegem, J. & Van der Perre, G., EuroPACE Models: in European Networking and Learning for the Future (Antwerpen: Garant, 2008).
Bijnens, H., Op de Beeck, I., De Gruyter, J., et al., “Reviewing Traces of Virtual Campuses: From a Fully Online Virtual Campus to a Blended Model”, in Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies, eds. Stansfield, M. & Connolly. T. (University of Paisley: IGI Global, 2009).
Benchmarking of Virtual Campuses (BENVIC), “What is a Virtual Campus?”, 2002, http://www.benvic.odl.org.
EuroPACE, cEVU (2009), http://www.europace.org/rdcevu.php
Centro de Enseñanzas Virtuales de la Universidad de Granada, MASSIVE, http://cevug.ugr.es/massive.
Re.ViCa wiki, “Finnish HEIs in the information society” http://www.virtualschoolsandcolleges.eu/index.php/Finland (accessed November 2009).

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Resources

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== Experts in the field of Virtual campuses ==

[[Advisory Committee]]

[[Experts]]

== Book Recommendations ==

* Latchem, C. and Jung, I. (2010) Distance and blended learning in Asia London: Routledge, especially Chapter 5: New providers and new markets

*

== Series of reports on eLearning initiatives ==

These include:

* [[The e-University Compendium]] - a collection of 23 reports and some annexes, dating from summer 2004
* [[Megatrends in e-Learning Provision]] - a series of books from the [http://nettskolen.nki.no/in_english/megatrends/index.html Megatrends] Project, 2005-2007
* [[The Development of Virtual Education: A global perspective ]] A study of current trends in the virtual delivery of education, conducted with funding provided by the Department for International Development, London, UK, by [[COL]]

== Individual reports on eLearning initiatives==

* [[Blended learning at the macro level – the experience of the Bavarian Virtual University]]
* [[Lessons to be learned from the failure of the UK e-University]]
* [[Offshore education in the wider context of internationalisation and ICT: experiences and examples from Dutch higher education]]
* The Business of Borderless Education
* [[Using Distance Education for Skills Development]]
* [[Towards a Virtual Campus Observatory for Latin America]] (Extract)
* [[Trainer’s and Professional’s Guide to Quality in Open and Distance Learning]]
* [[Studies in the Context of the E-learning Initiative: Virtual Models of European Universities]]
* [[Survey of Virtual Campus and Virtual University Activities in Europe]]
* [[The Virtual University. Models and Messages. Lessons from Case Studies]]
* [[The Finnish Virtual University. Lessons and Knowledge Exchange Opportunities to Inform Pan-Canadian Plans]]
* [[Cooperation Models for National e-Learning Development in Estonia (example of the Estonian e-Learning Development Centre)]]

== elearning Project outputs ==
* [[MASSIVE - Modelling Advice and Support Services to Integrate the Virtual Component in Higher Education]]
* [[UNIQUe - European University Quality in eLearning]]
* [[E-xcellence - Benchmarking tool for Quality Assessment in e-learning]]
* [[BEING MOBILE - Disseminating Virtual Mobility for Students and Teachers]]
* [[E-LERU - A Virtual Campus for European Universities]]
* [[cEVU - a Collaborative European Virtual University]]
* [[BENVIC - Benchmarking of Virtual Campuses]]
* [[E-MOVE - An operational conception of virtual mobility]]
* [[E.A.S.Y - European Agency for EASY access to Virtual Campus]]
* [[UNIVe - Creating a Network-based e-University Model for the Small Countries in the Context of e-Learning in Europe]]
*[[Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses| PBP-VC - Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses]] Powerpoint Presentation, project outputs, book
*[[fnm-austria ]](Forum Neue Medien in der Lehre österreichischer Universitäten und Fachhochschulen)
# [[Eenovate]]

== Other WIKIs of relevance ==
The following wikis on related topics may be of interest to the audience interested in the Re.ViCa wiki.

(Unless stated otherwise, all wikis use the same [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] software that is used by Re.ViCa.)

# The [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Main_Page EduTech wiki] run by the [http://www.unige.ch/ University of Geneva] has a large number of definitions of useful terms and concepts in e-learning.
# The [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page OER wiki] run by the [http://www.unesco.org/iiep/ International Institute for Educational Planning] (IIEP) in UNESCO has useful coverage of concepts and projects in the area of Open Educational Resources.
# The [http://elatewiki.org/index.php/Main_Page ELATE wiki] is a US wiki of good practices in e-learning
# The [http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/CETIS_Wiki CETIS wiki] is a a wiki of resources to do with interoperability and standards for e-learning, run by a programme of JISC
# The [http://www.sloan-c-wiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Sloan-C wiki] is full of useful Effective Practices and articles (mostly from [http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/ JALN])
# The [http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page SimTeach] wiki covers education in Multi-User Virtual Environments - see also its interesting "subwiki" on [http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki Second Life] (thanks to [http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm Stephen Downes's blog] for this information)
# The [http://elearning.heacademy.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Higher Education Academy Benchmarking and Pathfinder wiki] has many articles of relevance to the UK e-learning situation.
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia] itself contains many articles on e-learning topics.
# The [http://www.utdc.vuw.ac.nz/emmWiki/index.php/Main_Page eMM wiki] run by Dr [[Stephen Marshall]] of the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) is the repository for the evolving e-Maturity Model ([[eMM]]) methodology for benchmarking e-learning.
# Although it is a web site and blog but not actually a wiki it is worth mentioning the new EU reports on [http://www.nettskolen.com/in_english/megatrends/index.html Megatrends in e-learning provision] which include mini case studies on the [[University of Leicester]], [[University of Ulster]], [[Staffordshire University]] and [[Manchester Metropolitan University]] as well as of course the [[Open University]] and several non-UK providers.
# [http://www.wikieducator.org/Main_Page WikiEducator] is a community resource supported by the [[Commonwealth of Learning]] (COL) for the development of free educational content. Some descriptions of institutions and initiatives relevant to Re.ViCa are available, or are being developed.

In addition to these, it is known that various agencies and associations including [http://connect.educause.edu/ EDUCAUSE] are experimenting with wikis.

== Papers people have found ==
* [http://www.educause.edu/library/EQM09212 Challenges in Setting up Cross-Institutional Virtual Campuses] - Educause Quaterly, Vol. 32(2), 2009. Written by [[Pierre-Yves Burgi]]
* [http://www.cet.uct.ac.za/projects#PHEA PHEA Educational Technology Initiative] - Reports on ICTs in Higher Education in: Egypt , Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda. Obtained by [[Paul Bacsich]]
* [http://www.cairn.info/revue-distances-et-savoirs-2006-1-p-23.htm L’université virtuelle britannique / The British Virtual University] (FR but with English summary). Found by [[Paul Bacsich]]
* [http://www.fondazionecrui.it/elue/E-LUE%202006%20ingl.pdf University towards e-learning: a focus on Finland, France and Italy]: The ELUE project (E-Learning and University Education)'s aim is to photograph the diffusion of e-learning in the university world in Finland, France and Italy. This volume presents the results of a joint survey carried out by the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI), the Conference des Presidents d’Université Française (CPU), and the Finnish Virtual University (FVU) on the universities of their respective countries. PDF, 149 pages. Found by [[Widad Benhabiles]].

* [http://www.fondazionecrui.it/elue/documents.htm A Comparison of the National Reports of the First Stage], by the ELUE project (E-Learning and University Education). Found by [[Widad Benhabiles]].

* [[Image:Karran_TandPohjonen_J2000a.pdf]]: Responding to the Vision of the Information Society: First Steps Towards a National Virtual University. A Policy Discussion Paper by [[Terence Karran]] and Juha Pohjonen, Finland, 2005 (PDF, 124 pages, English) ISBN 951-42-5587-9 - suggested by Terence Karran

* [[Image:Mexico_ANUIESPlan2001.pdf]]: Masterplan of Higher Education: Open and Distance Education. Development strategy], Mexico, 2001 (PDF, 118 pages, in Spanish) - suggested by Terence Karran

* [[Image:Karran_eMexico_UNESCO2005.pdf]]: E-MEXICO - BUILDING ON SUCCESS, FOR SUCCESS, by Terence Karran, Mexico, 2005 (PDF, 4 pages, in English) - suggested by Terence Karran

* GLOBAL EDUCATION DIGEST 2006 Comparing Education Statistics Across the World - see http://www.estatisticas.gpeari.mctes.pt/archive/doc/globaleducationdigest2006unesco.pdf - found by Paul on 08/08/08

* The eLearning industry and market in Europe - Lot 1: Appendix to Synthesis Report by Jane Massy - see http://ec.europa.eu/education/archive/elearning/doc/studies/market_annex1a_en.pdf - found by Paul on 12/08/08

* THE USE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION AND INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHER EDUCATION: TRENDS, POLICY AND STRATEGY CONSIDERATIONS - see http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001334/133486e.pdf - found by Paul on 12/08/08

* Quality in E-Learning" report (91 pages) - see http://www.hsv.se/download/18.8f0e4c9119e2b4a60c800028057/0811R.pdf - found by Paul's friends around 10/09/08

* UKeU and Sweden's Net University - a Comparative Study by Michael Christie, Chalmers, and Ramon Garrote Jurado, University College of Borås. See: http://www.nshu.se/english/download/7496/ukeu_and_swedens_net_university_2007_mchristie_rgarrote.pdf. Found by Ulla 22/09/08.

* The Fostering of Innovative Elearning Strategies in European Higher Education, by James Aczel, [[Pascale Hardy]] et al (2006). From the InnoUniLearning project. See http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/document.cfm?docid=8515 for [http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/getfile.cfm?documentfileid=9533 Word] and [http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/getfile.cfm?documentfileid=9534 PowerPoint] versions. '''Well worth reading as background to our work'''. Added by Paul 23/10/08.

* Identifying Innovation in Higher Education eLearning Strategies by James Aczel, [[Pascale Hardy]], Olivier Cotinat, Helen Iggulden, László Komáromi, Katherine Maillet, Sara Medina, Andreas Meiszner, Eva Obermueller, Mark Spinoglio, Karen Staniland (2006). From the InnoUniLearning project. See http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/document.cfm?docid=8940 for the abstract of the [http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/getfile.cfm?documentfileid=10170 PDF file]. Added by Paul 23/10/08 (Rather similar to the previous paper.)

* [http://www.emdel.org/docs/Emdel_rapport_web.pdf “Emdel: a Model for Valorization of eLearning in a Knowledge Society” (PDF)], 138 pages, 2005, edited by Ellen Gard added by Nikki 26/11/2008

* [http://ec.europa.eu/education/archive/elearning/doc/studies/virtual_annex_f_en.pdf Studies in the Context of the e-learning Initiative: Virtual Models for European Universities (lot 1)(PDF)], 200 pages, 2003,Final Report to the EU Commission, DG Education & Culture, Annex F '''Country profiles''' added by Nikki 26/11/2008

* [[http://www.elearningeuropa.info/extras/pdf/virtual_models.pdf Studies in the Context of the e-learning Initiative: Virtual Models for European Universities ]](], 228 pages, 2004,Final Report to the EU Commission, DG Education & Culture, Annex F '''Country profiles''' added by Bieke

* [[http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/elearning/doc/studies/market_annex1_en.pdf The eLearning industry and market
in Europe]] added by Bieke on 05/01/2009

== Research on the use of ICT in education in developing countries ==

*[[infoDEV]] Information for development program publications about the use of ICT in education in Africa and the Carribean are availabe at: http://www.infodev.org/en/TopicPublications.4.html

*[[UNESCO Bangkok]], has a very elaborated website on the use of ICT in education. YOu can search per theme. http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/. They also have a special focus on the use of ICT in hiegher education. http://www.unescobkk.org/en/education/ict/ict-in-education-projects/higher-education/ We also refer to the metasurvey on the use of ICT in education in Asia and the Pacific : http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ict/e-books/metasurvey/metasurvey.pdf

*[[UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education]] One of the themes was ICT in education and the opportunities ICT provide to strive to reach education for all. The background report focuses particularly on the implications of ICTs for developing countries and is avialble at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001832/183207e.pdf

* The business of higher education: a study of public-private partnerships in South Africa Door Mahlubi Mabizela

== Interesting Networks ==

* [[BALTECH]] & the [[Baltic Sea University of Science and Technology]]
* [[Baltic Sea Network]]
* [[Coimbra Group]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EADTU]] - [[Netherlands]]
* [[EDEN]] - [[UK]]
* [[Edineb]] - [[Netherlands]]
* [[EUNITE]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EURASHE]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EuroPACE ivzw]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EUA]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[JISC]] - [[United Kingdom]]
* [[LERU]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[MENON]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[SEFI]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[SPACE]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[SURF]] - [[Netherlands]]
* [[USDLA]] - [[USA]]

== European Research projects on Virtual Campuses and Virtual Mobility ==
# [[MegaTrends]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Agency for Easy Access to Virtual Campus]] ([[E.A.S.Y.]])
# [[Modelling Advice and Support Services to Integrate Virtual Component in Higher Education]] ([[MASSIVE]])
# [[REal Virtual Erasmus]] ([[REVE]])
# [[Virtual and E-mobility for Networking Universities in Society]] ([[VENUS]])
# [[Analysing and Reporting the Implementation of Electronic Learning in Europe]] ([[ARIEL]])
# [[An Operational Conception of Virtual Mobility]] ([[E-move]])
# [[Collaborative European Virtual University]] ([[cEVU]])
# [[Developing a European e-learning Observation System]] ([[DELOS]])
# [[European Mobility through Virtual Education]] ([[EUROMOVE]])
# [[European Observatory of Emergent e-Learning]] ([[DELPHI]])
# [[Learning in a Virtual Integrated University]] ([[LIVIUS]])
# [[Learning Interoperability Framework for Europe]] ([[LIFE]])
# [[Mobility, Assessment, Selection, Technology and E-Learning Research]] ([[MASTER]])
# [[Model for a European Networked University for e-Learning]] ([[MENU]])
# [[Citizen E]]
# [[Eenovate]]
# [[Economic filtering of knowledge]] ([[FILTER]])
# [[European Small and medium entreprise E-learning Network]] ([[ESEN]])
# [[Horizontal E-Learning Integrated Observation System]] ([[HELIOS]])
# [[InnoUniLearning]]
# [[Observatory on Rights Management for e-Learning in Europe]] ([[OrmeE]]), a.k.a. [[e-copyright]]
# [[Open e-Learning Content Observatory Services]] ([[OLCOS]])
# [[Reti Sociali e Promozione Della Costruzione di Conoscenze in Contesti Elearning]]
# [[Unive]]
# [[VIrtual Curricula ThrOugh Reliable InterOperating University Systems]] ([[VICTORIOUS]])
# [[FLOSSCom]]
# [[Improving Continuing Education and Training through e-learning]] ([[ICETEL]])
# [[Systematization, Valorisation and Dissemination of e-Learning]]
# [[Enhancing Virtual Mobility to foster institutional cooperation and internationalisation of curricula]] ([[Movinter]])

== European research projects on Quality in eLearning ==
# [[E-xcellence - creating a standard of excellence for e-learning]]
# [[E-quality in e-learning research Laboratoire]] ([[EQUEL]]
# [[European Quality Observatory]] ([[EQO]])
# [[European Research Network for ICT in Schools of Tomorrow]] ([[eRNIST]])
# [[Quality Assessment of Digital Educational Materials]] ([[QUADEM]])
# [[Framework for e-learning Contents Evaluation]] ([[Fe-ConE]])
# [[Improving quality of e-learning in universities]] ([[ELUE]])
# [[La qualité de l'eLearning]] ([[QUAL-E-LEARNING]])
# [[Supporting Excellence in eLearning]] ([[SEEL]])
# [[Sustainable Environment for the Evaluation of Quality in eLearning]] ([[SEEQUEL]])
# [[TRIANGLE]]
# [[European University Quality in eLearning]] ([[UNIQUe]])

== Virtual Community for teachers and trainers ==
# [[A European Lifelong Learning System on ICT in Education for Pioneer Teachers]] ([[ULEARN]])
# [[BAZAAR]]
# [[e-Learning Network for Teacher Training]] ([[eLene-TT]])
# [[eTTnet]]
# [[Training of trainers network for e-learning]] ([[e-Ttnet]])
# [[English for Specific Purposes: Therapeutic Professions]] ([[ESP-T]])
# [[SSIS Veneto]] ([[SSIS]])

== Interesting Networks ==

* [[BALTECH]] & the [[Baltic Sea University of Science and Technology]]
* [[Baltic Sea Network]]
* [[Coimbra Group]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EADTU]] - [[Netherlands]]
* [[EDEN]] - [[UK]]
* [[Edineb]] - [[Netherlands]]
* [[EUNITE]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EURASHE]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EuroPACE ivzw]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EUA]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[JISC]] - [[United Kingdom]]
* [[LERU]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[MENON]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[SEFI]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[SPACE]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[SURF]] - [[Netherlands]]
* [[USDLA]] - [[USA]]

== Other Resources ==
* [[E-learning Progress at Ain-Shams University]], The [[Mediterranean Virtual University]] Project: a list of virtual universities per region.

* [[Bibliography_of_benchmarking]]
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Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule

2009-10-13T13:27:50Z

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The Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule or Priv. Fern-FH Darmstadt (Private Distance-University of Applied Science Darmstadt) is with 5,000 students in 2008 the biggest technical university of applied sciences in [[Germany]].

It offers bachelor and diploma-degrees in informatics and engineering. Unlike public institutions students can start their studies at any time during the year.

The Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule web site is at http://www.privatfh-da.de/ and http://www.wb-fernstudium.de/

More information (in German) about the online learning: [http://www.privatfh-da.de/infos-zum-studium/wbh-online-campus.php Online-Campus "StudyOnline"]

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Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule

2009-10-13T13:27:29Z

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The Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule or Priv. Fern-FH Darmstadt (Private Distance-University of Applied Science Darmstadt) is with 5,000 students in 2008 the biggest technical university of applied sciences in [[Germany]].

It offers bachelor and diploma-degrees in informatics and engineering. Unlike public institutions students can start their studies at any time during the year.

The Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule web site is at http://www.privatfh-da.de/ and http://www.wb-fernstudium.de/

More information (in German) about the online learning: [http://www.privatfh-da.de/infos-zum-studium/wbh-online-campus.php Online-Campus "StudyOnline"]

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University of the West of Scotland

2009-10-13T13:25:46Z

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The ''University of the West of Scotland'' (Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh na h-Alba an Iar, '''UWS''') supports online (distance) learning and traditional learning with technology.

The university is based in [[Scotland]], [[UK]], and was formed by a merger of the University of Paisley and Bell College, Hamilton in August 2007.

The university is known for its vocational undergraduate and postgraduate courses. It currently has over 19,000 students (including over 1300 international students), and approximately 1300 staff, spread across seven schools of learning.

Bachelor's and Master's distance learning courses are available in Health Studies, Management of eBusiness, and Nursing Studies. According to the school's [http://www.paisley.ac.uk/courses/distancelearning.asp distance learning web site], "Students use email, teleconferencing, bulleting boards and online classroom forums to interact with tutors and other students. All course and reference materials are available online, providing students with everything they need to complete their studies."

Courses are support by the use of Blackboard.


The university's main office is in Paisley, [[Scotland]]. Other campuses are located in Ayr, Dumfries and Hamilton.


The UWS web site is at http://www.uws.ac.uk/











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University of Thessaly

2009-10-13T13:24:48Z

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The ''University of Thessaly'' supports videoconference and tele-education over IP, videoconference, Video on Demand, and live transmission of TV programs and local radio station program through Internet. All are provided through the university's Network Management Centre, in cooperation with GUNET.

The Network Centre of the University has already set up a fully-equipped videoconference room in Trikala, for the Department of Physical Training Science. The video teleconference room has been successfully used for synchronous distance education sessions in physical training science issues for the students and for similar postgraduate courses attendance.

The main campus is in Volos, Thessaly, [[Greece]], and was founded in 1984. Other campuses are operated in Larissa, Trikala and Karditsa. The university comprises four schools—Humanities, Engineering, Agricultural Sciences and Health Sciences—and has three independent departments focusing on Physical Education and Sports Science, Veterinary Medicine and Economics.

The University of Thessaly web site is at http://www2.uth.gr/main/index/index_en.html











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University of Piraeus

2009-10-13T13:18:57Z

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The ''University of Piraeus'' supports a number of WWW course tools, through its Network Center.

It is located in Piraeus, [[Greece]] and was founded in 1938. It hosts roughly 8000 undergraduates and 1500 postgraduates.

In 1966, it became a public university. Academics focus on the fields of economics, business administration, statistics and insurance science, financial management and banking, industrial management, maritime studies, International and European studies, informatics and digital systems. The University is also home to theUniversity of Piraeus Research Center (UPRC) which participates in technological research on an international level.

Courses are provided through an asynchronous distance learning environment.

The Computer Centre of the University of Piraeus aims at facilitating the educational, administrative and research work of the University. Students of all departments are having Computer Science courses and practice in four fully equipped laboratories at the Computer Center with 85 workstations.

It should be specially mentioned that modern office automation computer systems and desktop publishing applications are extensively used by the academic and administrative staff thus providing high level services.

Most of the research projects are supported by the University Central Computer system (DEC 5810 Risk) in which there have been installed many Relational Data Base Management Systems, programs for economics and statistical analysis, expert systems, computer language compilers etc. This main system is connected through the Ethernet Network with Unix Workstations over 200 PC’s used in education, 50 Apple Macintosh systems for office automatic projects and other special devices such aw plotters, scanners etc.

The Computer Center also provides communication facilities with other Universities, Institutions and Research Centers all over Greece and abroad, mainly through its Internet Server System DEC Alpha 1000. The Network Management Centre (NMC) of the University of Piraeus is located in its central building and is responsible for:

* The management of the data and voice network
* The design, implementation and evolution of the University network System and user support
* The provision of teleconference services
* The provision of internet and web (www) services
* The provision of dial-up access services

The University continually invests on improving its network structure using up-to-date technologies and on developing telematic applications for teaching and research purposes.

The University of Piraeus web site is at http://www.unipi.gr/











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University of Oslo

2009-10-13T13:18:18Z

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The ''University of Oslo'' (UiO, Norwegian: Universitetet i Oslo, Latin: Universitas Osloensis) is the largest and oldest institution of higher education in [[Norway]]. It was founded in 1811 when Norway was still under Danish rule. Today the University of Oslo has approximately 30,000 students and 4,600 employees. Four Nobel Prize winners indicate the quality of the research at the University.

Its web site in English is at http://www.uio.no/english/

== More details ==
(sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oslo)

The university was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin, and originally named after King Frederick of Denmark and Norway. It received its current name in 1939.

The university has faculties of (Lutheran) Theology, Law, Medicine, Humanities, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Dentistry, Social Sciences, and Education. The Faculty of Law is still located at the old campus on Karl Johans gate (Oslo's central pedestrian street), near the National Theatre, the Royal Palace, and the Parliament, while most of the other faculties are located at a modern campus area called Blindern, erected from the 1930s.

Currently the university is considered one of the leading universities of Scandinavia. In 2007 the University of Oslo was ranked as the best university in Norway, the 19th best in Europe and 69th best in the world in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. Also, in 2005 its faculty of humanities was ranked as the best in the Nordic countries, the 5th best in Europe and the 16th best in the world by the Times Higher Education Supplement[2].

== e-learning ==

Many courses at UiO require the use of web-based services for their course activities. The most common system in use is [http://fronter.info/com/ Fronter], a web based digital learning environment that allows for communication and cooperation among the students. Fronter is used for submitting assignments, sharing information, communicating, discussion, etc. A list of names and email addresses of all the students is provided for each group. As Fronter is a web-based application, students may communicate with fellow students and their teachers wherever they are.

A wiki (based on InterMedia) is used for research and teaching on some courses - see http://www.intermedia.uio.no/dashboard.action

However, the English version of the current Strategic Plan at http://www.uio.no/english/about_uio/strategicplan_2005-09.pdf does not mention e-learning.

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University of Miskolc

2009-10-13T13:16:53Z

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* '''University of Miskolc'''

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| Name || UNIVERSITY OF MISKOLC - NORTH HUNGARIAN REGIONAL DISTANCE EDUCATION CENTER
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| Status ||
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| Field || Economics
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| Activities || Distance learning.

e-learning : linked to running projects

e-learning : COEDU e-learning platform.
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| Contact|| Mária Kocsis Baán
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| Parnership / Network || Collaborate in EADTU Network
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| Focus group ||
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| URL ||[http://emrtk.uni-miskolc.hu/en/ Miskolc university - regional distance education center web site]

[http://emrtk.uni-miskolc.hu/en/index.php?page=demo&image=demo_header&css=inner_css e-learning solutions developed by the university]

http://queen.odl.uni-miskolc.hu/
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| ! || Distance learning center started within a PHARE programmme (IDEA). 13 Other centers. Network.
|}

The city of Miskolc is located in the north-eastern part of Hungary. The Miskolc University has 15,000 students, 800 lecturers and 1,200 other staff. The University consists of three technical faculties and three faculties of the humanities.

In 1998 with the support of PHARE, the Northern Hungarian Regional Distance Education Centre was established as the methodological and international background institution of the faculty and departmental educational units of the University of Miskolc. This had a positive influence on the modernization of training programs, effectiveness, and expansion of offers within the scope of the University of Miskolc.

The University has a separate eLearning unit and eLearning is predominantly centralised in the Institution. The applied system is user-friendly and today’s student generaly can use it without too much support. ELearning is most often applied at the entrance level.

There are classroom based and web-based training available for teaching staff responsible for conducting eLearning classes and for learners to become proficient with the technology used to support the eLearning environment. Faculty members are provided with quick and personal support, which is provided immediately by the respective eLearning staff. ELearning course/programmes are developed in partial accordance with the European Credit Transfer System ‘Information Package/Course Catalogue’ checklist and transfer. The majority of eLearning activities are connected to “blended” learning, where review is performed in a traditional way.

Besides the continuous, personal or electronic consultation possibilities, the curriculum developers can gain access to significant methodological work and to a collection of sample courses in the library. The development of the different curriculum takes place within the project’s framework. The Institution does not have a defined eLearning Strategy.

=Project=

* Virtual Campus for Digital Students (ViCaDiS)

Web URL: http://queen.odl.uni-miskolc.hu/

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University of Ioannina

2009-10-13T13:12:31Z

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The ''University of Ioannina'' supports an Open and Distance Learning Centre in conjunction with [[Fernuniversitat Hagen]].

The campus is located in Ioannina, [[Greece]], and in 2006 hosted over 20,000 students across 17 faculties. The university was founded in 1964, as a department of the [[Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]]; it became a university in 1970. There is a prominent medical school that performs research and provides doctors to the local University Hospital.

The Computer and Media Centre organises all computer services for teaching and research operations and administers the campus-wide network, which includes access to global computer networks.

There are also facilities provided by the Media & Documentation Centre that include a variety of production capacities as well as archive materials in the field of audio-visual media. Among these is a fully equipped broadcasting studio, equipment for electronic editing, and video producing, and a photo lab. Besides lecturers, students do have access to all facilities if they work on supervised projects.

In the University of Ioannina there is also an Open and Distance Learning Centre: as a regional office of the [[Fernuniversitat Hagen]], the Centre gives support to students who are enrolled at the Open University by supervising their studies and preparing for exams. A stock of self-learning material (print and audio-visual media) is available to both Fernuniversität Hagen and University of Lueneburg students.

The University of Ioannina web site is at http://www.uoi.gr/en/










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University of Hradec Kralove

2009-10-13T13:11:29Z

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The ''University of Hradec Kralove'' (University of Hradec Králové) supports fully online courses, as well as traditional face-to-face study.

The University of Hradec Králové is in the [[Czech Republic]]. It was founded in 1959 as the "University College of Education" (Vysoká škola pedagogická) and renamed in 2000.

The university offered its first first pilot online course in 1998, under the TEMPUS project MUDILT; and ramped up its online offerings soon thereafter. In 2001 online courses were offered to university students. Before launching its online courses, the university organised a national competition of e-learning distance courses in cooperation with the country's National Centre of Distance Education and EUNIS CZ.

The university offers a total of 25 accredited study programmes across the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Informatics and Management and the Faculty of Arts; providing educational experiences to about 7,000 students.

The University of Hradec Králové's main office is in Hradec Králové, [[Czech Republic]].


The university's web site is at http://www.uhk.cz/eng/






== Reports ==
See [http://e-dilema.uhk.cz/doc/MIK_POU.doc/ Our e-learning journey: A case study] for early information about the university's evolution to using e-learning.




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University of the Aegean

2009-10-13T13:09:46Z

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The ''University of the Aegean'' is considered the first Greek University to fully utilise Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in everyday activities, thus implementing the Information Society in Hellenic higher education.

The University of the Aegean is a multi-campus university based in Mytilene, [[Greece]]. It was founded in 1984 and comprises five geographically dispersed campuses, serving roughly 12,000 students.

The University of Aegean has connected to its constituent campuses through the Aegean-net all-university units in different islands on the Aegean Sea, i.e. the islands of Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Rhodes.

The Aegean-net project offers the proper infrastructure and know-how to these remote geographically locations, for research and educational purposes.

The University of the Aegean considers e-learning a competitive advantage and a powerful means of achieving its strategic institutional goals of improving the learning environment, recruiting and retaining unparalleled faculty, and attracting high-achieving students. WebCT Vista was selected following a rigorous evaluation process carried out by a university committee comprised of faculty members, support professionals and IT staff.

There is also a Web community named MyAegean, the initiative was based on elements of communication, entertaiment and information. There are several tools like forum discussions, on-line magazines, chat, personal messages, audio-visual materials etc. All of this utilities help the students to keep in touch through the islands and link them. Is an important point of meeting for old graduates, undergraduates, postgraduate, teachers, staff, stakeholders etc. They can share courses information, experiences, and entertaiment information.

The University of the Aegean web site is at http://www3.aegean.gr/aegean/en/intro_en.htm











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University of Granada

2009-10-13T13:06:37Z

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The ''University of Granada'' ('''Universidad de Granada''') has supported e-learning and blended learning since 1995, through its Virtual Learning Center (CEVUG, or Centro de Enseñanzas Virtuales de la Universidad de Granada - see report cited below).

The university has participated in numerous international e-learning initiatives, as well as actively furthered the use of e-learning within its own walls. According to the undated (c.2006) report cited below, the university has boasted over 4,000 "virtual learners".

The university as a whole has 88,000 students and over 3,400 staff members. It was founded in 1531.

Learners may also take courses through the [[Campus Virtual Andaluz]].


The university is located in Grenada, Andalusia, [[Spain]].


The University of Granada web site is at http://www.ugr.es/ugr/index.php?page=universidad

The CEVUG web site is at http://cevug.ugr.es/

University of Granada is a member of [[EFQUEL]].







== Reports ==
See [http://sci2s.ugr.es/publications/ficheros/JCIT-v9-1-2007-pp90-107.pdf this c.2006 report] on e-Learning at the university.



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University of Gavle

2009-10-13T13:05:22Z

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The ''University of Gävle'' (Högskolan i Gävle, HiG) supports distance education, primarily via internet.

It is located in Gävle, [[Sweden]], and despite its English name is not a university by Swedish law (per [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_G%C3%A4vle Wikipedia], June 4 2009). Established in 1977, it has six departments offering "approximately 50 degree programmes and 800 elective courses".

There are approximately 13,000 registered students at the university. Half of these students come from the surrounding region; the other half come from other parts of Sweden. The total number of employees is some 800, of whom over 30 are full professors and 150 senior lecturers. A high percentage of the academic staff has an international background, a fact that contributes to the university's on-going process of internationalisation.

The most common form of distance education at HiG is the combination of Internet and video conferences, but also e-mail and telephone are commonly used. In some courses, there may even be one or more meetings at the university. Certain courses are, however, completely web-based and have no obligatory meetings at the university or any other place. Students and teachers communicate via e-mail, computer conferences, or so-called virtual classrooms.

A learning center is the central support function for distance education and flexible learning at HiG. The learning center also closely cooperates with the study centers in the region.

The university web site is at http://www.hig.se/Verktyg-i-hoger/In-English.html











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University College Copenhagen

2009-10-13T13:04:16Z

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The ''University College Copenhagen'' ('''Professionshøjskolen København''', UCC) offers a wide range of diplomas and other courses in the fields of education and health.

The university college's main office is in Copenhagen, [[Denmark]].

Its Danish web site is at http://www.ucc.dk
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Universidade de Aveiro

2009-10-13T12:52:11Z

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The Universidade de Aveiro (''University of Aveiro'', UA) in [[Portugal]] supports eLearning through its LMS Blackboard.

Universidade de Aveiro was founded in 1973.
One particularity of the University of Aveiro is that apart from delivering university education degrees, it also delivers polytechnic education degrees in its four polytechnic schools of higher education. The University of Aveiro created its post-secondary school Technological Specialisation Courses (CET) with practical training in a work environment. The CETs have, as their main objective, the immediate placement of students in professions while also providing a qualification for further study on a higher education degree programme at UA.

The academic year of 2006/2007 marked the entry of the University of Aveiro into the Bologna era, with 13,000 students in attendance.

==eLearning==
It started its eLearning initiative with an experimental pilot programme in October 1998. The main objectives were to gain experience with web based learning. The target groups were on-campus students.

eLearning at the University is aimed towards helping students with learning and encouraging a diversity of pedagogical approaches. In 2004, the University organized the international conference on eLearning ‘eLes04’. The University has several departments that are contributing to ICT enriched education. Each of these departments has a special focus such as: content production and support, teacher training, support on infrastructure and technology, and library services. Besides the university wide services and systems, a number of departments still maintain additional services and systems suitable for their respective environment.

==Internationalisation==
To foster internationalisation and to gain from the experiences of other HEIs, the university as a whole participates in various projects such as: the [http://www.campuseuropae.org/en/ Campus Europae] (European University Foundation), [[European Consortium of Innovative Universities]], and [http://tuning.unideusto.org/tuningeu/ Tuning Educational Structures in Europe]. The University has also been identified in 2005 as one of the 11 most advanced universities in terms of implementing the ‘[[ECTS| European Credit Transfer System]]’ (ECTS) for all courses. The university is now extending the use of the ECTS to the lifelong learning process.

Its web site is http://www.ua.pt/ and its e-learning system or LMS Blackboard can be found at http://elearning.ua.pt/

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Universidade Católica Portuguesa

2009-10-13T12:50:36Z

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In January 2003, the University Senate approved the establishment of a new Institute for Distance Learning (IEFD). IEFD is directed predominantly to post-graduate level education and to the pedagogical renewal of the University. The new Institute is deemed complementary and subsidiary in nature regarding the other (traditional) education structures: Schools, Institutes, Regional Centers, and Study Centers. IEFD developed a broad dialogue with the different University units to identify opportunities and priorities. The idea was to help units become aware of opportunities and define their own priorities in ODL programmes. Moreover, IEFD provides the necessary technical and pedagogical support to help realize sectoral priorities.

Web URL: http://www.ucp.pt/site/custom/template/ucptplportalhome.asp?sspageid=1&lang=1

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Universidade Católica Portuguesa

2009-10-13T12:50:07Z

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Universidad a distancia de Madrid

2009-10-13T12:48:03Z

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{{OpenUniversities}}


The ''Open University of Madrid'' ('''Universidad a distancia de Madrid''', UDIMA) is the second private Open University and the third open university in [[Spain]]. It was founded in 2006, located in Madrid. This university seeks to follow the market leader ([[UOC]]) in the sector of private open universities. It sees the opportunity to grow in this market niche, as there aren’t yet many universities like this in Spain (relevant to the evolution of ICT related to education).

Nowadays a lot of people can not attend university for different reasons, so this target group is selected for the institution. Furthermore it offers international degrees such as business management, law, and engineering among others. It also offers titles such as Expert on Audit and Review of Annual Accounts, Training Course of Insurance and Reinsurance. It commenced activity in the year 2007/2008.

The main shareholder of UDIMA is [[CEF]] (Centro de estudios financieros); they work together on projects and courses, publishing books, and using the knowledge that [[CEF]] has acquired over numerous years of work in ICT and teaching.


The strength Of ''Open University of Madrid'', [[Spain]] is associated with the way they teach; they use the newest ICT, but without forgetting the students. UDIMA takes care to remain very close to students (via personalization and constant accompaniment of the student), and for this reason it is hiring professional teachers with significant experience in different fields of knowledge - especially those used to working with distance learning systems based on new technologies.

The UDIMA mission is to provide the best possible service to students.

The main aims of UDIMA are teaching, learning, study and research of quality.

*Teaching:

Teachers in charge of tutoring in different training activities use an on-line telematic tool for internal communication, since they can act as guides and mentors - and energize the different learning groups.

*Training materials:

The teachers have all learning materials (theory and practice) in different media. Throughout the training, teachers invite students to make any comments and improvements necessary. These assessments are reflected in the two surveys that are conducted online through the training. Results are studied with the goal of improvement.

*Research:

Research is undertaken with CEF. UDIMA has a strategic plan in ICT.

UDIMA aims to be a university focused on research. There are plans to create a Research and Development Institute which will be promoted from the various R & D in various fields of science and technology.

One can find UDIMA on the net; for example, Second Life is used to supplement online training activities.

The UDIMA web site is at http://www.udima.es/

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Tiger University Program

2009-10-13T12:47:01Z

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'''The Nations Support Program for the ICT in Higher Education "Tiger University"''' was approved by the [[Estonia| Estonian Government]] in January 2002. Its administration was delegated to the [[Estonian Information Technology Foundation]].

The '''Tiger University Program goals''' are to:

* Support for the development of the ICT infrastructure at higher educational establishments,
* Support for the development of ICT academic staff and degree courses' infrastructure.

The '''priorities''' are:

* development of ICT infrastructure (upgrading the academic backbones and networks, PC procurements, equipping the labs, providing software),
* development of ICT-related curricula (new curricula, creation of study materials, e-University, e-learning, literature and electronic resources),
* motivating the academic staff (mentoring PhD students, academic sabbaticals, lecturers' and PhD students mobility scheme, internships, visiting lecturers).

'''Program Council''' has been set up to coordinate and run the program. Together with the staff it announces the competitions, appoints experts, reviews submissions, is authorised to make allocations, and later monitors and follows up on the results.

More information on the Tiger University can be found on http://www.eitsa.ee/?url=tigeruniversity

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The Global university system

2009-10-13T12:39:43Z

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The global university system is a network of networks formed in particular by higher education institutions, but also by other organizations which share the same objectives of developing cooperation based on solidarity and partnership and aim to improve the global learning and wellness environment for people in the global knowledge society, where global responsibility is shared by all. This project should help to establish CampusNet; it was funded by Japanese government.

The mission of GUS is to help higher educational and healthcare institutions in remote/rural areas of developing countries to deploy broadband Internet in order to close the digital divide. Learners may take courses from different member universities, obtaining their degree from the GUS, thus freeing them from being confined to one academic culture of a single university or country. These institutions also act as the knowledge center of their community for the eradication of poverty and isolation. Those institutions affiliated with GUS become members of the GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Chair Program.

GUS continues existing, and it’s located at University of Tampere in the research centre. They have developed several projects; you can find some of them at:

http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/Southwest%20Asia/Palestine_Gaza%20Strip_&_West%20Bank/GUS_Palestine/Concept%20Paper/Version_07-16-07/Establishment%20of%20GUS-Palestine_v4-07-16-07%20copy%201.pdf

http://www.uta.fi/~titava/documents/annualreport2003.pdf

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The Global university system

2009-10-13T12:39:29Z

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The Global university system

2009-10-13T12:33:32Z

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National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

2009-10-13T12:29:37Z

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The ''National & Kapodistrian University of Athens'' ('''University of Athens'''; National and Capodistrian University of Athens) supports online education through its Open eClass platform.

Previously known as the Othonian University, University of Athens is the oldest university in Greece, and has been in continuous operation since its establishment in 1837. Today, it is the second-largest institution of higher learning in Greece, with more than 50,000 undergraduate students.

The Open eClass platform is designed with the goal to bring new actions that promote its corporate utility in the already existing educational patterns into effect. The main user role is that of the teacher who can create practical and functional electronic courses easily and quickly, using the educational material provided (note, presentations, texts, pictures, etc). At the same time, students attain an alternative entry channel to the knowledge offered.

The adult education modules based on the Distance Learning model were designed in response to increased education requirements in various job environments. They spin around 5 thematic units in the field of finance and last from 5 to 9 months. Upon successful completion of the academic requirements, adult students receive a Certificate of Studies.

In particular, the University awards Certificates of Training and Certificates of Specialisation, each reflecting specific programme choices by the students. Eligible candidates to the University’s adult education programme are University and T.E.I. graduates and secondary education graduates with previous experience. Candidates are selected on the following criteria: Grade Point Average of Degree or Graduation Diploma (Apolyterio) and priority with respect to application filed. Candidates are required to have access to a personal computer and the Internet. Fees vary with respect to the thematic unit selected.

The Open eClass platform, used by the University, is a complete Course Management System. It is the solution offered by the Greek Academic Network GUnet to support Asynchronous eLearning Services. It is mainly designed, developed and supported by the GUnet Asynchronous eLearning Group and is distributed for free as open-source software.

The Asynchronous eLearning Platform uses a simple web browser. Its goal is the incorporation and constructive use of the Internet and web technologies in the teaching and learning process. It supports the electronic management, storage and presentation of teaching materials, independently of the spatial and time limiting factors of conventional teaching and creating the necessary conditions for a dynamic teaching environment.

The National & Kapodistrian University of Athens web site is at http://www.uoa.gr/uoauk/uoaindex.htm











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Main Page

2009-10-13T12:26:20Z

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The Re.ViCa wiki is growing everyday. We are updating the list of [[Programmes]]. We already identified more then 450 Interesting elearning initiatives worldwide.</div>

The [[Re.ViCa]] wiki has been set up to provide an inventory and to show the results of a systematic review of Virtual Campus initiatives of the past decade within higher education throughout the world. In this wiki you will find a list of more than 300 interesting [[Programmes]], all of which have been categorised. All programmes are listed based on the interesting or innovative eLearning approach they have taken. We have listed a significant number of relevant initiatives varying greatly in terms of size, type of student, country of origin etc. You will also find [[Country reports]], describing the educational context and ways in which decision-makers in these countries have taken steps to address changes brought about due to the emergence of the Information Society. The wiki also contains 9 in-depth [[Institutional reports]] and a large number of related [[Resources]]. We have collected and described relevant research projects, outputs, and publications, and provide a list of experts in the field of Virtual Campuses. Some pages are protected, but most are open and await your contributions. Do you know an interesting Virtual Campus or do you want to provide information about your country? Please log in and help us to sustain this wiki, as a large and dynamic inventory of Virtual Campuses!

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# [[Historical overview]]
# Definitions of [[virtual campus]]
# An [[Inventory]] of virtual campuses across the world
##[[Programmes]] of interest to Virtual Campus analysts
## [[Country reports]] + [[Country template]] for authors and [[Countries]] of relevance
## [[Institutional reports]] (Includes the case studies)
## Theoretical [[Categorization]]
#[[Critical Success Factors]]
# [[Resources]]
# [[Glossary]] of terms and [[Abbreviations]]
# [[Project]] description
# [[International Advisory Committee]], [[People]] in the project and other relevant [[Experts]]
#[[:Special:Categories|List of all Categories]] - countries, case studies, etc
# [[Copyrights]]

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''The wiki is a work in progress. Many of the judgements that are made about institutions and projects are at this stage tentative and subject to further analysis by the project with the help of the International Advisory Committee - and may be found challenging by some readers. The Re.ViCa team conducts its research on Virtual Campuses along a broad range of parameters. We looked at former initiatives, research projects and the project consortium expertise. Most information is validated by the numerous discussion sessions that the Re.ViCa team has organised with different stakeholder groups throughout the project. Information on individuals is as far as possible collected from public sources and written in "curriculum vitae" fashion, focussing on their strengths and abilities and not on irrelevant personal information.''

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2009-10-13T12:24:58Z

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The Re.ViCa wiki is growing everyday. We published the wiki only 2 months ago and we can already count '''more than 3,500 unique visitors'''. Especially the [[Programmes]] page is very popular, followed by the [[Countries]] page with links to the [[Country reports]]</div>

The [[Re.ViCa]] wiki has been set up to provide an inventory and to show the results of a systematic review of Virtual Campus initiatives of the past decade within higher education throughout the world. In this wiki you will find a list of more than 300 interesting [[Programmes]], all of which have been categorised. All programmes are listed based on the interesting or innovative eLearning approach they have taken. We have listed a significant number of relevant initiatives varying greatly in terms of size, type of student, country of origin etc. You will also find [[Country reports]], describing the educational context and ways in which decision-makers in these countries have taken steps to address changes brought about due to the emergence of the Information Society. The wiki also contains 9 in-depth [[Institutional reports]] and a large number of related [[Resources]]. We have collected and described relevant research projects, outputs, and publications, and provide a list of experts in the field of Virtual Campuses. Some pages are protected, but most are open and await your contributions. Do you know an interesting Virtual Campus or do you want to provide information about your country? Please log in and help us to sustain this wiki, as a large and dynamic inventory of Virtual Campuses!

'''''Content Index'''''

# [[Historical overview]]
# Definitions of [[virtual campus]]
# An [[Inventory]] of virtual campuses across the world
##[[Programmes]] of interest to Virtual Campus analysts
## [[Country reports]] + [[Country template]] for authors and [[Countries]] of relevance
## [[Institutional reports]] (Includes the case studies)
## Theoretical [[Categorization]]
#[[Critical Success Factors]]
# [[Resources]]
# [[Glossary]] of terms and [[Abbreviations]]
# [[Project]] description
# [[International Advisory Committee]], [[People]] in the project and other relevant [[Experts]]
#[[:Special:Categories|List of all Categories]] - countries, case studies, etc
# [[Copyrights]]

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'''''Disclaimer'''''

'' The Re.ViCa team makes every effort to ensure, but does not guarantee, the accuracy of the information on this wiki. Hyperlinks to other websites imply neither responsibility for, nor approval of the information contained in those other websites on the part of Re.ViCa.''

''The wiki is a work in progress. Many of the judgements that are made about institutions and projects are at this stage tentative and subject to further analysis by the project with the help of the International Advisory Committee - and may be found challenging by some readers. The Re.ViCa team conducts its research on Virtual Campuses along a broad range of parameters. We looked at former initiatives, research projects and the project consortium expertise. Most information is validated by the numerous discussion sessions that the Re.ViCa team has organised with different stakeholder groups throughout the project. Information on individuals is as far as possible collected from public sources and written in "curriculum vitae" fashion, focussing on their strengths and abilities and not on irrelevant personal information.''

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2009-10-13T12:23:54Z

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<div style="float:right; width:30%; padding: 0px 4px 12px 4px; margin: 4px; border:solid 2px #243C5A; color:#243C5A; text-align: justify;"><h3>News</h3>
The Re.ViCa wiki is growing everyday. The Re.ViCa Team is updating the Re.ViCa wiki and the list of [[Programmes]]. We have already more then 450 notable initiatives identiefied worldwide. <div>

The [[Re.ViCa]] wiki has been set up to provide an inventory and to show the results of a systematic review of Virtual Campus initiatives of the past decade within higher education throughout the world. In this wiki you will find a list of more than 300 interesting [[Programmes]], all of which have been categorised. All programmes are listed based on the interesting or innovative eLearning approach they have taken. We have listed a significant number of relevant initiatives varying greatly in terms of size, type of student, country of origin etc. You will also find [[Country reports]], describing the educational context and ways in which decision-makers in these countries have taken steps to address changes brought about due to the emergence of the Information Society. The wiki also contains 9 in-depth [[Institutional reports]] and a large number of related [[Resources]]. We have collected and described relevant research projects, outputs, and publications, and provide a list of experts in the field of Virtual Campuses. Some pages are protected, but most are open and await your contributions. Do you know an interesting Virtual Campus or do you want to provide information about your country? Please log in and help us to sustain this wiki, as a large and dynamic inventory of Virtual Campuses!

'''''Content Index'''''

# [[Historical overview]]
# Definitions of [[virtual campus]]
# An [[Inventory]] of virtual campuses across the world
##[[Programmes]] of interest to Virtual Campus analysts
## [[Country reports]] + [[Country template]] for authors and [[Countries]] of relevance
## [[Institutional reports]] (Includes the case studies)
## Theoretical [[Categorization]]
#[[Critical Success Factors]]
# [[Resources]]
# [[Glossary]] of terms and [[Abbreviations]]
# [[Project]] description
# [[International Advisory Committee]], [[People]] in the project and other relevant [[Experts]]
#[[:Special:Categories|List of all Categories]] - countries, case studies, etc
# [[Copyrights]]

''Click [[Swine flu]] for Re.ViCa resources on this topic.''

'''''Disclaimer'''''

'' The Re.ViCa team makes every effort to ensure, but does not guarantee, the accuracy of the information on this wiki. Hyperlinks to other websites imply neither responsibility for, nor approval of the information contained in those other websites on the part of Re.ViCa.''

''The wiki is a work in progress. Many of the judgements that are made about institutions and projects are at this stage tentative and subject to further analysis by the project with the help of the International Advisory Committee - and may be found challenging by some readers. The Re.ViCa team conducts its research on Virtual Campuses along a broad range of parameters. We looked at former initiatives, research projects and the project consortium expertise. Most information is validated by the numerous discussion sessions that the Re.ViCa team has organised with different stakeholder groups throughout the project. Information on individuals is as far as possible collected from public sources and written in "curriculum vitae" fashion, focussing on their strengths and abilities and not on irrelevant personal information.''

''If any individual feels that information about them requires correction then it is within the spirit of the wiki approach for them to do that for their own entry.''

'''''Before you start please:'''''

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2009-10-13T12:22:35Z

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The Re.ViCa wiki is growing everyday. The Re.ViCa Team is updating the Re.ViCa wiki and the list of [[Programmes]]. We have already more then 450 notable initiatives identiefied worldwide. <div>

The [[Re.ViCa]] wiki has been set up to provide an inventory and to show the results of a systematic review of Virtual Campus initiatives of the past decade within higher education throughout the world. In this wiki you will find a list of more than 300 interesting [[Programmes]], all of which have been categorised. All programmes are listed based on the interesting or innovative eLearning approach they have taken. We have listed a significant number of relevant initiatives varying greatly in terms of size, type of student, country of origin etc. You will also find [[Country reports]], describing the educational context and ways in which decision-makers in these countries have taken steps to address changes brought about due to the emergence of the Information Society. The wiki also contains 9 in-depth [[Institutional reports]] and a large number of related [[Resources]]. We have collected and described relevant research projects, outputs, and publications, and provide a list of experts in the field of Virtual Campuses. Some pages are protected, but most are open and await your contributions. Do you know an interesting Virtual Campus or do you want to provide information about your country? Please log in and help us to sustain this wiki, as a large and dynamic inventory of Virtual Campuses!

'''''Content Index'''''

# [[Historical overview]]
# Definitions of [[virtual campus]]
# An [[Inventory]] of virtual campuses across the world
##[[Programmes]] of interest to Virtual Campus analysts
## [[Country reports]] + [[Country template]] for authors and [[Countries]] of relevance
## [[Institutional reports]] (Includes the case studies)
## Theoretical [[Categorization]]
#[[Critical Success Factors]]
# [[Resources]]
# [[Glossary]] of terms and [[Abbreviations]]
# [[Project]] description
# [[International Advisory Committee]], [[People]] in the project and other relevant [[Experts]]
#[[:Special:Categories|List of all Categories]] - countries, case studies, etc
# [[Copyrights]]

''Click [[Swine flu]] for Re.ViCa resources on this topic.''

'''''Disclaimer'''''

'' The Re.ViCa team makes every effort to ensure, but does not guarantee, the accuracy of the information on this wiki. Hyperlinks to other websites imply neither responsibility for, nor approval of the information contained in those other websites on the part of Re.ViCa.''

''The wiki is a work in progress. Many of the judgements that are made about institutions and projects are at this stage tentative and subject to further analysis by the project with the help of the International Advisory Committee - and may be found challenging by some readers. The Re.ViCa team conducts its research on Virtual Campuses along a broad range of parameters. We looked at former initiatives, research projects and the project consortium expertise. Most information is validated by the numerous discussion sessions that the Re.ViCa team has organised with different stakeholder groups throughout the project. Information on individuals is as far as possible collected from public sources and written in "curriculum vitae" fashion, focussing on their strengths and abilities and not on irrelevant personal information.''

''If any individual feels that information about them requires correction then it is within the spirit of the wiki approach for them to do that for their own entry.''

'''''Before you start please:'''''

Please check our short list of [[Help:Contents|Guidelines]] or visit our Re.ViCa [[Tutorial| Wiki Editing Tutorial]]

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Sulinet Digital Knowledge Base (SDT)

2009-10-13T12:04:32Z

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The page is sourced from the Sulinet Web site at http://sdt.sulinet.hu/.

the Sulinet Program Office in cooperation with the Ministry of Education decided to create the Sulinet Digital Knowledge Base because :
in the period of the accelerated technological development traditional methods of knowledge transfer can not serve the demands of the labour market anymore. Acquisition of skills and abilities got into the centre of interest. Knowledge could be diverse and it can change quickly, therefore life long learning has become very important. Life long learning is composed of different basic competencies. Skill of reading, writing and basic lexical knowledge is still essential. Foreign language knowledge and ability to use information and communication technologies make this complete. The Ministry of Education represents the programs aiming to develop the life long learning skills in the Middle Distance Development Plan of the Public Education. The formation of life long learning skills expects the establishment of new physical and mental infrastructure; therefore

'''Content development'''
* SDT is a digital curriculum database and a content management tool
* LOs cover the curriculum of grades 7-12 according to knowledge areas
* Goal: to create a complete curriculum database covering the curriculum of grades 1-12
* SDT is a Learning Content Management System consisting of different reusable elements (pictures, texts, sound- and video files)
* Subjects of History and Geography are available right now - 15.224 LOs and learning assets
* Other eight subjects are going to be available by the end of 2004, that means about 200.000 LOs and learning assets
* The internal storage of data and the publishing happens aligned with international standards (SCORM, IMS, LOM, Dublin Core) towards the enhancement of independence from the content-suppliers and the portability of the content
* The multiple classifications, technical and content meta information related to the assets and LO's support the maintenance of the substance
* Book publishers and teachers are also involved in the process, and the development takes place also in form of voluntary work.

'''SDT portal'''
* Available via the Education Portal of Sulinet Program Office - http://sdt.sulinet.hu
* Its use for non profit goals is free of charge for everyone
* Examples, animations, demonstration films, supplementary databases, background information, lecture drafts, methodological assistance
* It has collaborative functions - forum (open and closed), chat
* Search function (simple and advanced), browser
* LOs are provided with detailed metadata - it makes searching easier
* Editorial function: users have the right to edit the LOs and to create new ones, which might get into the SDT after professional verification
* Test phase of the portal started on 1 September 2004

'''Teacher training'''
* Intends to develop teachers' ICT and methodological skills
* Based on a survey on teachers' skills and awareness level
* Shift in teaching content: informatics as a profession supporting the creation of digital culture
* Ten modules - teachers might choose modules they would like to take according to their existing skills

Subjects:
* Studies on operation informatics
* Studies on informatics with supplementary multimedia-based educational auxiliary materials (multimedia-based tools and softwares)
* CBT/WBT methodological studies
* Constructive, collaborative and cooperative pedagogy (through articles and presentations)

'''Sulinet's mission'''

:We want to teach teachers as they are expected to teach!

:We pledged ourselves to develop the Sulinet Digital Knowledge Base with the aim to support the acquisition of the life long learning's minimum competencies. One of the tools is the basic information database, which builds model about the information acquisition and the knowledge building of the labour market environment better than the traditional books with linear structure delivering complete knowledge.

Their web site: http://sdt.sulinet.hu/

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Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava

2009-10-13T12:02:27Z

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The ''Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava'' (University Stefan cel Mare; Universitatea "Stefan cel Mare"; USV) is a public university in Suceava, [[Romania]], founded in 1990.

According to a [http://steconomice.uoradea.ro/anale/volume/2008/v1-international-business-and-european-integration/073.pdf recent case study], the University Stefan cel Mare is considered to be one of the most important HE institutions in northeast Romania. The university follows the example of modern universities of Europe, but at the same time maintains its own traditions.

The University Stefan cel Mare is a public institution with roughly 12,000 students across nine faculties, with 315 staff, teachers and researchers (2007). It seeks to educate the skilled local labor force in various industries, namely forestry, food, machinery and equipment; to provide continuing education for practitioners and managers, primarily in tourism and forest investment construction; and to nurture partnerships with diverse institutions and firms.

The University Stefan cel Mare of Suceava has led or participated in over 80 European Structural Funds projects. It is difficult to find information about the university in English.


The University Stefan cel Mare's main office is in Suceava, [[Romania]].

The Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava web site is at http://www.usv.ro/index.php







== Reports ==
See [http://steconomice.uoradea.ro/anale/volume/2008/v1-international-business-and-european-integration/073.pdf this recent case study] addressing European Structural Funds and the university's impact on the surrounding region.




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Silesian University of Technology

2009-10-13T11:57:54Z

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The ''Silesian University of Technology'' ('''Politechnika Śląska''') supports distance learning through its Distance Learning Platform, or digital learning platform.




The Silesian University of Technology main office is in Gliwice, [[Poland]]. It consists of 12 faculties which are based in Gliwice, Katowice and Zabrze. It also includes a subsidiary Engineering Education Center in Rybnik.
The Silesian University of Technology enrolls approximately 33,000 students.


The digital Learning Platform is based on modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment, represents LMS (Learning Management Systems) technology, a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses. Currently on Distance Learning Platform at the Silesian University of Technology are available over 520 online courses created for students of twelve University’s faculties.

The number of Distance Learning Platform users exceeds 12000. Distance Learning Platform works as typically asynchronous e-learning service, but in the future more synchronous e-learning services will be added. Distance Learning Platform has great potential to create a successful e-learning experience by providing a plethora of excellent tools that can be used to enhance conventional classroom instruction, in hybrid courses, or any distance learning arrangements.

The Silesian University of Technology web site is at http://www.polsl.pl/.










More information on the digital learning platform is available in this pdf file: http://www.iiisci.org/journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/QE165FV.pdf
And more information also available on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_University_of_Technology
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[[Category:Poland]]
[[Category:Universities]]

Programmes

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Biekeschreurs:

''The following list includes the lists of institutions which [[The e-University Compendium]] and the UNESCO [http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/linksliste.php IIEP List] feel are worthy of consideration as virtual universities. In the next phase, we have also included many of the accredited open universities around the world, and virtual elearning initiatives mentioned in other research projects or relevant sources of information.'' You can have a look at our [[original list of programmes.]] For various sources of information please check our [[Publications]] Page

We present the interesting programmes here as European versus Rest of The World. We appreciate that reaching a common agreement as to what constitutes ‘Europe’ is quite a complex task and one which reaches beyond the boundaries of a European Project like Re.ViCa. We have therefore taken the decision as a project team to use a definition of Europe that fits between a narrow definition of Europe as being made up of the 27 member states of the European Union and the broader geographic definition of Europe. We define Europe for the purposes of our work in Re.ViCa as including the countries of the EU, EEA and Switzerland. This means that the ‘Rest of the World’ refers to all countries which do not fall within this definition of Europe. Each Notable e-Learning Initiative is categorized and you can find per entry, to what category they belong. If you click on the category, you can find all other initiatives that belong to that category. You can find for example all "private providers" or "national initiatives".

== European (in the sense of EU, EEA and Switzerland) ==
# [[Aalborg University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Aarhus University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Academy of Performing Arts in Prague]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie]], [[AUF]], [[Canada]]
# [[AKAD Privat-Hochschulen]], [[Germany]]
# [[Apertus Foundation]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]]
# [[Athens University of Economics and Business]], [[Greece]]
# [[Bavarian Virtual University]] ([[Virtuelle Universität Bayern]]), [[Germany]]
# [[BI Norwegian School of Management]], [[Norway]]
# [[Budapest University of Technology and Economics]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Bulgarian Virtual University]] ([[BVU]]), [[Bulgaria]]
# [[Business Academy West]], [[Denmark]]
# [[CAmpus Numerique en Economie-GEstion]] ([[CANEGE]]), [[France]]
# [[Campus Numériques Français ]], [[France]]
# [[Canal U]], [[France]]
# [[Central European University]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance]] ([[CNED]]), [[France]]
# [[Centro estudios financieros]], [[Spain]]
# [[Clyde Virtual University]] ([[CVU]]), [[Scotland]] - [[UK]]
# [[College of European and Regional Studies]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[College of Nursing and Midwifery]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers]], [[France]]
# [[Copenhagen University College of Engineering]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Czech Technical University in Prague]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[Danish Virtual University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Dennis Gabor Applied University]] ([[DGAU]]), [[Hungary]]
# [[Distance and International Study Center]] ([[DISC]]), TU Kaiserslautern, [[Germany]]
# [[Distance Education Study Centre]] ([[DESC]]), [[Latvia]]
# [[Dublin City University]], [[Ireland]]
# [[Dutch Digital University]], ([[DDU]]), [[Netherlands]]
# [[E-Campus Telematic University]], [[Italy]]
# [[Engineering College of Aarhus]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Eötvös Lóránt University]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Erasmus University College Brussels]], ([[EhB]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Estonian Business School Open University]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian e-Learning Development Centre]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian e-University]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian e-Vocational School]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian IT College]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Eszterházy Károly College]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Europäische Fernhochschule Hamburg]] [[Germany]]
# [[European University Viadrina]], [[Germany]]
# [[Fédération Interuniversitaire de l'Enseignement à Distance]] ([[FIED]]), [[France]]
# [[Fernfachhochschule Schweiz]], [[Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences]], [[FFHS]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[FernUniversität Hagen]], [[Germany]]
# [[Finnish Online University of Applied Sciences]], [[VirtuaaliAMK]], [[Finland]]
# [[Finnish Virtual University]], [[FVU]], [[Finland]]
# [[The Foundation Fernstudien Schweiz]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[Ghent University Association]] ([[AUGent]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Ghent University]] ([[UGent]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Global Virtual University]] - and see in particular [[University of Agder]], [[Norway]]
# [[Gotland University]], [[Sweden]]
# [[Guglielmo Marconi Telematic University]], [[Italy]]
# [[Hamburger Fernhochschule]] [[Germany]]
# [[Hellenic Open University]] ([[HOU]]), [[Greece]]
# [[Henley Management College]], [[England]]
# [[Hibernia College]], [[Ireland]]
# [[Hochschulverbund Virtuelle Fachhochschule]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[Instituto de formación de postgrado]], [[Spain]]
# [[Interactive University]], [[Scotland]] - [[UK]]
# [[Intercultural Open University]], the [[Netherlands]]
# [[International Business Academy]] ([[IBA]]), [[Denmark]]
# [[International Telematic University UNINETTUNO]], [[Italy]]
# [[International University of Andalusia]], [[Spain]]
# [[IT University West]], [[Denmark]]
# [[IT-University of Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Jutland University College]], [[Denmark]]
# [[KHiS]], [[Sweden]]
# [[Klagenfurt University]], [[Austria]]
# [[KTH Royal Institute of Technology]], [[Sweden]]
# [[learndirect]], [[UK]]
# [[Leidse Onderwijsinstellingen]], [[LOI]], [[Netherlands]]
# [[Lithuanian Virtual University]], [[Lithuania]]
# [[Lübeck University of Applied Sciences]], [[Germany]]
# [[Lund University]] NetUniversity, [[Sweden]]
# [[Mediterranean Network of Universities]], [[Italy]]
# [[METID-Politecnico di Milano]], [[Italy]]
# [[Middlesex University]] Global Campus, [[UK]]
# [[Mid Sweden University]], [[Sweden]]
# [[MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences]], [[Hungary]]
# [[National College for School Leadership]] ([[NCSL]]) of the [[UK]]
# [[NBPortal.pl]], [[Poland]]
# [[NETTUNO]], [[Italy]]
# [[Networked University]], [[Norway]] - the same as the [[Norwegian Networked University]]
# [[NHSU]], the ''National Health Service University'', [[UK]]
# [[NKI Internet College]], [[Norway]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[NKS Nettstudier]], [[Norway]]
# [[Norway Opening Universities]] ([[NOU]]) - an agency - [[Norway]]
# [[Norwegian Networked University]] ([[NVU]]) - a universities association - [[Norway]]
# [[oncampus]], [[Germany]]
# [[Open Estonia Foundation]], [[OEF]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Open Universiteit Nederland]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Open University of Cyprus]] (OUC), [[Cyprus]]
# [[Open University]] of the [[United Kingdom]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[OSCAIL]], [[Ireland]]
# [[Pandeion University for Social and Political Sciences]], [[Greece]]
# [[Pegaso Telematic University]], [[Italy]]
# [[Peoples Open Access Educational Initiative]] ([[Peoples-uni]]), [[UK]]
# [[Polish Virtual University]], [[PUW]], [[Poland]]
# [[Robert Gordon University]], [[Scotland]]
# [[Roskilde University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Scottish Knowledge]], [[UK]]
# [[Scuola IaD]], [[Italy]]
# [[Sheffield Hallam University]], [[UK]]
# [[Silesian University of Technology]], [[Poland]]
# [[Sør-Trøndelag University College]], [[Norway]]
# [[Staffordshire University]], [[UK]]
# [[Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava‎]], [[Romania]]
# [[Sulinet Digital Knowledge Base]], [[SDT]] [[Hungary]]
# [[Swedish Net University]], [[Sweden]]
# [[Swiss Virtual Campus]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[SZÁMALK Education and Information Technology Ltd.]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Tallinn University]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Tallinn University of Technology]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Technical University of Graz]], [[Austria]]
# [[The Global university system]], [[Finland]]
# [[The National & Kapodistrian University of Athens]], [[Greece]]
# [[Tiger Leap Foundation]], [[TLF]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Tiger University Program]], [[Estonia]]
# [[UHI Millennium Institute]], [[Scotland]] - [[UK]]
# [[UKeU]], [[UK]]
# [[Universidad a distancia de Madrid]], [[Spain]]
# [[Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia]] ([[UNED]]), [[Spain]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Universidade Aberta]], [[Uab]], [[Portugal]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Universidade Católica Portuguesa]], [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidade de Aveiro]], [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidade do Minho]], [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidade do Porto]] ([[UP]]), [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidad Politécnica de Madrid]] ([[UPM]]), [[Spain]]
# [[Universitat Oberta de Catalunya]], [[Catalonia]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Université Virtuelle en Pays de la Loire ]], [[France]]
# [[Université Virtuelle Francophone]] ([[Virtual Francophone University]]), [[France]]
# [[Universités numériques en région]] ([[UNR]]), [[France]]
# [[Universités Numériques Thématiques]] ([[UNT]]), [[France]]
# [[University College Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College Lillebaelt]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College of Northern Denmark]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College Sealand]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College South]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University of the Aegean]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Agder]], [[Norway]]
# [[University of Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University of Gavle]], [[Sweden]]
# [[University of Granada]], [[Spain]]
# [[University of Hradec Kralove]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[University of Ioannina]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria]], [[Canary Islands]], [[Spain]]
# [[University of Liverpool]] Online Education [[UK]]
# [[University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Miskolc]], [[Hungary]]
# [[University of Oslo]], [[Norway]]
# [[University of Piraeus]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering]], [[FEUP]], [[Portugal]]
# [[University of Southern Denmark]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University of Tartu]], [[Estonia]]
# [[University of Thessaly]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of the West of Scotland]], [[UK]]
# [[University of Ulster]] Campus One, [[Northern Ireland]], [[UK]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[University of Urbino "Carlo Bo"]], [[Italy]]
# [[University of West Hungary]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]] ([[VUB]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Warsaw University Centre for Open and Multimedia Education]] ([[COME]] ), [[Poland]]
# [[Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule]], [[Germany]]
# [[Zentralstelle für Fernstudien an Fachhochschulen]] ([[ZFH]]), [[Germany]]

=== Virtual Campuses (VC) supported by the European Commission ===

==== Running projects (until end of 2009)====
# [[E-learning in Distributed Data Network Laboratory]] ([[EdiNet]])
# [[European Teachers and Trainers campus]] ([[eTT.Campus]])
# [[History On Line]]
# [[OIKODOMOS: a virtual campus to promote the study of dwelling in contemporary Europe]]
# [[Virtual Campus for A Sustainable Europe]] ([[VCSE]])
# [[Virtual Campus for Digital Students]] ([[ViCaDiS]])
# [[Virtual Campus for SMEs in a Multicultural Milieu]]
# [[Virtual Campus on Post-master Studies in Architecture]] ([[e-archidoct]])
# [[Web-based health Organisations Learning Environment]] ([[WHOLE]])

==== Ceased activities ====
# [[European Master in Comparative Urban Studies]] ([[e-URBs]])

==== Virtual Campus beyond EU Funding ====
# [[European Virtual Campus for Biomedical Engineering]] ([[EVICAB]]):The project was funded by the European Commission for two years from 1.1.2006 till 31.12.2007. At present the funding id provided by other sources.
# [[League of European Research Universities virtual campus]] ([[e-LERU]])
# [[Law & ICT Shared Virtual Campus]] ([[LAW&ICT]])

==== Ceased? ====
# [[Bio-eTrain]]
# [[Multiple intelligences instructional design framework for virtual classes]]
# [[Reuse and Sharing of e-Learning Courses in GI Science Education]] ([[eduGI]])
# [[VIrtual campus for virtual space design Provided for european Architects]] ([[VIPA]])
# [[New e-learning Environment for European SME's Employees]] ([[CREATEL]])
# [[Virtual COPERNICUS-CAMPUS]]
# [[Virtual European Banking School]] ([[VEBS]])
# [[ICT Platform for Online Learning and Experiences Accreditation in the Mobility Programme]] ([[PLATO]])
# [[Erasmus Virtual Economics & Management Studies Exchange]] ([[EVENE]])

== Rest of the World ==

''Note that a few of these initiatives have ceased or merged by 2009.''

# [[Abilene Christian University]], [[US]]
# [[Africa University Virtual Classroom]], [[Zimbabwe]]
# [[African Virtual University]] ([[AVU]])
# [[Al-Balqa' Applied University]], [[Jordan]]
# [[Allama Iqbal Open University]] ([[AIOU]]), [[Pakistan]]
# [[Al-Madinah International University]] ([[MEDIU]]), [[Malaysia]]
# [[Almaty Technological University]], [[Kazakhstan]]
# [[Al-Quds Open University]], [[Palestine]]
# [[Al-Quds University]], [[Palestine]]
# [[American InterContinental University]] ([[AIU]]), [[US]]
# [[Amur State University]], [[Russia]]
# [[Anadolu University]], [[Turkey]]
# [[Andrew Jackson University‎]], [[US]]
# [[Anna Maria College]], [[US]]
# [[Arab American University for Distance Learning]], [[Jordan]]
# [[Arab Open University]] ([[AOU]])
# [[Arizona Universities Network]] ([[AZUN]]), [[United States]]
# [[ASEAN Virtual University]]
# [[Ashworth College]], [[US]]
# [[Ashford University]], [[US]]
# [[Asia International Open University]] (AIOU), [[Macao]]
# [[Assumption University]], [[Thailand]]
# [[Athabasca University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Auckland University of Technology]] ([[AUT]]), [[New Zealand]]
# [[Australian Catholic University]]
# [[Australian National University]]
# [[Bangalore University]], [[India]]
# [[Bangladesh Open University]] ([[BOU]])
# [[Bankit University Teledukasi‎]], [[Indonesia]]
# [[BCcampus]], [[Canada]]
# [[Beijing Foreign Studies University]] ([[BFSU]]), [[China]]
# [[Beijing Normal University]] ([[BNU]]), [[China]]
# [[Beijing Radio & TV University]] ([[BTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Beirut University Online]], [[Lebanon]]
# [[Best Virtual Universities Organisation]]
# [[Big 12 Engineering Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia‎]], [[US]]
# [[British Columbia Open University]] ([[BCOU]]), [[Canada]]
# [[California Virtual Campus]] ([[CVC]]), [[US]]
# [[California Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[Campus Numerique Francophone de Dakar]], [[Senegal]]
# [[Campus Saskatchewan‎]], [[Canada]]
# [[Campus Virtual de Salud Publica]] - an international initiative
# [[Canadian Virtual University]] ([[CVU]])
# [[CAP College]], [[Philippines]]
# [[Capella University]], [[US]]
# [[Cardean University]], [[US]]
# [[Carleton University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Carnegie Mellon University]], [[US]]
# [[Cederj]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Charles Sturt University]] ([[CSU]]), [[Australia]]
# [[Charter Oak State College‎]], [[US]]
# [[China Central Radio & TV University]] ([[CCRTVU]])
# [[Chinhoyi University of Technology]], [[Zimbabwe]]
# [[Coastline Community College‎]], [[US]]
# [[Colorado University Online]], [[US]]
# [[Colorado Community Colleges Online]], [[US]]
# [[Colorado Technical University‎]], [[US]]
# [[Columbia Southern University]], [[US]]
# [[Community College System of New Hampshire]] ([[CCSNH]]), [[US]]
# [[Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[Corinthian Colleges]], [[US]]
# [[Curtin University of Technology]], [[Australia]]
# [[CVA-RICESU]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Cyber U]], [[United States]]
# [[Cyber University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Daegu Cyber University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Deakin University]], [[Australia]]
# [[DePaul University]], [[US]]
# [[DeVry University]], [[US]]
# [[Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University]] ([[BRAOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University]], [[India]]
# [[Drexel University Online]], [[US]]
# [[Duke University]], [[US]]
# [[Dunia Moja]],[[South Africa]]
# [[DUOC UC]], [[Chile]]
# [[Early Childhood Development Virtual University]] ([[ECDVU]]), [[Canada]]
# [[e-Berkeley]], [[US]]
# [[eCampus Alberta]], [[Canada]]
# [[eChina]] e-learning collaboration between [[UK]] and [[China]]
# [[ECOESAD]], [[Mexico]]
# [[e-Cornell]], [[US]]
# [[Edith Cowan University]], [[Australia]]
# [[Egyptian E-Learning University]]
# [[e-Learnz]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Electronic University Consortium of South Dakota]], [[US]]
# [[Empire State College]], [[US]]
# [[e-TQM College]], [[Dubai]] - see [[Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University]]
# [[Euclid University]] - an international initiative
# [[Ewha Womans University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Faculdade Pitágoras]], [[Brazil]]
# [[FATECE]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Fathom.com]], [[US]]
# [[FGV Online]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Fisheries College, Bac Ninh]] ([[FC]]), [[Vietnam]]
# [[Florida Community College]], [[US]]
# [[Full Sail University]], [[US]]
# [[FUNIBER Virtual Campus]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Gama Virtual Campus UGF]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Georgia G.L.O.B.E.]], [[US]]
# [[Georgia Virtual Technical College]], [[US]]
# [[Global University Alliance]] - several meanings
# [[Great Plains IDEA]], [[US]]
# [[Hanoi Open University]], [[Vietnam]]
# [[Hanyang Cyber University]] ([[HYCU]]), [[Korea]]
# [[Harvard University Extension School]], [[US]]
# [[Hashemite University]], [[Jordan]]
# [[Health Sciences University of Mongolia]]
# [[Henan Radio & TV University]] ([[HNRTVU]])
# [[Ho Chi Minh City Open University]] ([[HCMCOU]]), [[Vietnam]]
# [[Hong Kong Polytechnic University]] Cyber U
# [[Hong Kong Virtual University]]
# [[ictQATAR]], [[Qatar]]
# [[Idaho Electronic Campus]], [[US]]
# [[Illinois Community Colleges Online‎]], [[US]]
# [[Illinois Virtual Campus]], [[US]]
# [[Independent Study in Idaho]], [[US]]
# [[Indian Institutes of Technology]] ([[IITs]]), [[India]]
# [[Indiana University Online]], [[US]]
# [[Indira Gandhi National Open University]], [[India]]
# [[Inner Mongolia Radio & TV University]] ([[IMRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Institute of Information Technology]] ([[Vietnam]])
# [[Institute of Distance and Continuing Education]], [[Guyana]] (in South America)
# [[International Cyber University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Iowa Community College Online Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[Iranian Virtual University]], [[Iran]]
# [[Isfehan Virtual University]] ([[Iran]])
# [[Ivy Tech Community College]] ([[US]])
# [[Jiangsu Radio & TV University]] ([[JSRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Jones International University]], [[US]]
# [[K. K. Handique State University]], [[India]]
# [[Kaplan College]], [[US]]
# [[Karnataka State Open University]] ([[KSOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Keio University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Keller Graduate School of Management]], [[US]]
# [[Kentucky Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[Kenyatta University]], [[Kenya]]
# [[Knowledge International University]], [[Saudi Arabia]]
# [[Korea National Open University]] ([[KNOU]])
# [[Korea Virtual Campus]]
# [[Kota Open University]], [[India]] - see [[Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University]]
# [[Kuban Institute of International Business and Management]], [[Russia]]
# [[Lakehead University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Lansbridge University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Laureate Education]], [[US]]
# [[Laurentian University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Lehigh University]], [[US]]
# [[Louisiana Board of Regents]], [[US]]
# [[Mackenzie Presbyterian University]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University]] ([[MPBOU]]), [[India]]
# [[MarylandOnline‎]], [[US]]
# [[Massachusetts Colleges Online]] ([[MCO]]), [[US]]
# [[Massey University]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Mediterranean Virtual University]] - international consortium
# [[Michigan State University]], [[US]]
# [[Michigan Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[Minnesota Online‎]], [[US]]
# [[MIT]], [[US]]
# [[Modern University of the Humanities]], [[Russia]]
# [[Montana University System‎]], [[US]]
# [[Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics]] ([[MESI]]), [[Russia]]
# [[Mount Royal College]], [[Canada]]
# [[Multimedia University]], [[Malaysia]]
# [[Nalanda Open University]], [[India]]
# [[Nanyang Technological University]], [[Singapore]]
# [[National Universities Degree Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[National Open University of Nigeria]]
# [[National Open University]], [[Taiwan]]
# [[National Science and Technology Program for e-Learning in Taiwan]]
# [[National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning]] ([[NPTEL]]), [[India]]
# [[National University of Science and Technology]] ([[NUST]]), [[Zimbabwe]]
# [[National University of Singapore]]
# [[Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University]] ([[NMMU]]), [[South Africa]]
# [[Netaji Subhas Open University]] ([[NSOU]]), [[India]]
# [[NetVarsity]], [[India]]
# [[New Jersey Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[NextEd]]
# [[NJEDGE.net]], [[US]]
# [[Northcentral University]], [[US]]
# [[North Dakota University System Online‎]] ([[NDUSO]]), [[US]]
# [[North-West University]] ([[NWU]]), [[South Africa]]
# [[Nova Southeastern University]], [[US]]
# [[Ohio Learning Network‎]] ([[OLN]]), [[US]]
# [[Ohio University Without Boundaries]] ([[OUWB]]), [[US]]
# [[Old Dominion University]], [[US]]
# [[Online CSU]], [[US]]
# [[Online University Consortium]] ([[OUC]]), [[US]]
# [[Open Learning Agency]] ([[OLA]]), [[Canada]]
# [[Open Polytechnic of New Zealand]]
# [[Open Training and Education Network]] ([[OTEN]]), [[Australia]]
# [[Open Universities Australia]] - formerly Open Learning Australia
# [[Open University for Adults]] ([[UAPA]]), [[Dominican Republic]]
# Open University of Brazil - see [[Universidade Aberta do Brasil]]
# [[Open University of China]]
# [[Open University of Hong Kong]] ([[OUHK]])
# [[Open University of Israel]] ([[OUI]])
# [[Open University of Japan]] ([[OUJ]])
# [[Open University of Libya]]
# [[Open University of Malaysia]]
# [[Open University of Sri Lanka]] ([[OUSL]])
# [[Open University of Sudan]] ([[OUS]])
# [[Open University of Tanzania]] ([[OUT]])
# [[Oregon Community Colleges Distance Learning‎]] ([[OCCDL]]), [[US]]
# [[Oregon Network for Education‎]] (ONE), [[US]]
# [[Orenburg State University‎]], [[Russia]]
# [[Otago University]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Pakistan Virtual University]]
# [[Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila Open University]], [[Philippines]]
# [[Park University]], [[US]]
# [[Payame Noor University]] ([[PNU]]), [[Iran]]
# [[Peer 2 Peer University]] ([[P2PU]]), [[US]]
# [[Penn State World Campus]], [[US]]
# [[Phnom Penh International University]], [[Cambodia]]
# [[Polivirtual]], [[Mexico]]
# [[Polytechnic University of the Philippines Open University]] ([[PUP-OU]]), [[Philippines]]
# [[Pt. Sunderlal Sharma Open University]] ([[PSSOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Punjab Technical University Virtual Campus]], [[India]]
# [[PurpleTrain.com]]
# [[Queen's University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Queensland University of Technology]] ([[QUT]]), [[Australia]]
# [[R1edu.org‎]], [[US]]
# [[Ramkhamhaeng University]], [[Thailand]]
# [[Regis University]], [[US]]
# [[Rey Juan Carlos University]] ([[URJC]]), [[Spain]]
# [[Rio Salado College]], [[US]]
# [[RMIT]], [[Australia]]
# [[Royal Roads University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Ryerson University]], [[Canada]]
# [[SAIDI School of OD]], [[Philippines]]
# [[Samtse College of Education]], [[Bhutan]]
# [[Savannah College of Art and Design]], [[US]]
# [[School of the Future]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Seoul Digital University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Shaanxi Radio & TV University]] ([[SXRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Shanghai TV University]] ([[STVU]] or [[SHTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Shenyang Radio & TV University]] ([[SYTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Shinshu University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Shiraz Virtual University]], [[Iran]]
# [[Sichuan Radio & TV University]] ([[SRTVU]]) or ([[SCRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[SIM University]] [[(UniSIM)]], [[Singapore]]
# [[Simon Fraser University]] ([[SFU]]), [[Canada]]
# [[Sokoine University of Agriculture]], [[Tanzania]]
# [[Southeast University‎]], [[Bangladesh]]
# [[Southern California Consortium for Community College Television]], [[US]]
# [[Southern Cross University‎]], [[Australia]]
# [[Southern Institute of Technology]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Southern Regional Electronic Board]] ([[SREB]]), [[US]]
# [[St. Petersburg College]], [[US]]
# [[Stanford University]], [[US]]
# [[Strayer University Online]]
# [[Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University]] ([[STOU]]), [[Thailand]]
# [[Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University]], [[Thailand]]
# [[Syrian Virtual University]] ([[SVU]])
# [[TAFE Open Learning]], [[Australia]]
# [[Tamil Nadu Open University]] ([[TNOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Tamil Virtual University‎]], [[India]]
# [[TechBC]], [[Canada]]
# [[Technikon SA]], [[South Africa]]
# [[Tecnológico de Monterrey]], [[Mexico]]
# [[Tehran Virtual University]], [[Iran]]
# [[Tele-Universite de Quebec ]], [[Quebec]]
# [[Temple University]] Online Learning (OLL) Program, [[US]]
# [[The Global Open University of Zambia]] ([[TGOU]])
# [[The Nursing Education Xchange‎]], [[US]]
# [[Theological College of Zimbabwe]]
# [[Thompson Rivers University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Tianjin Radio & TV University]] ([[TJRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Tohoku University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Tshwane University of Technology]], [[South Africa]]
# [[Tsinghua University]], [[China]]
# [[U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open University]] ([[UPRTOU]]), [[India]]
# [[UC-Berkeley Extension]], [[US]]
# [[UMassOnline]], [[US]]
# [[UNIACC]], [[Chile]]
# [[UNIEDPA]], [[Panama]]
# [[UNISA Online Campus]], [[South Africa]]
# [[United Nations University Online Learning]]
# [[United States Open University]]
# [[Universal College of Learning]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Universidad de Guadalajara]] (UDGVirtual), [[Mexico]]
# [[Universidad Estatal a Distancia]], [[Costa Rica]]
# [[Universidad José Cecilio del Valle]], [[Honduras]]
# [[Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia]] ([[UNAD]]), [[Colombia]]
# [[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras]]
# [[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México]] ([[UNAM]])
# [[Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja]] ([[UTPL]]), [[Ecuador]]
# [[Universidad Virtual de Quilmes]], [[Argentina]]
# [[Universidad Virtual de Salud de Cuba]]
# [[Universidade de Brasilia Centro de Educação a Distância]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Universidade Virtual do Centro-Oeste]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Universidade Virtual Publica do Brasil]]
# [[Universitas 21 Global]], [[Singapore]]
# [[Universitas Terbuka]], [[Indonesia]]
# [[Universiti Sains Malaysia]]
# [[Universiti Teknologi MARA]], [[Malaysia]]
# [[Universiti Tun Abdul Razak]] ([[UNITAR]]), [[Malaysia]]
# [[University College University of Maine System‎]], [[US]]
# [[University of the Andes]], [[Colombia]]
# [[University of the Arctic]]
# [[University of Bahrain]]
# [[University of Baltimore]], [[US]]
# [[University of British Columbia]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of Cape Town]], [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Central Florida]], [[US]]
# [[University of Colombo School of Computing]] ([[UCSC]]), [[Sri Lanka]]
# [[University of Dar es Salaam]], [[Tanzania]]
# [[University of the Free State]] ([[UFS]]), [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Guelph Open Online]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of Hawaii System]], [[US]]
# [[University of Hong Kong]]
# [[University of Illinois Global Campus]], [[US]]
# [[University of Illinois Online]], [[US]]
# [[University of Illinois Springfield‎]] ([[UIS]]), [[US]]
# [[University of Kentucky]], [[US]]
# [[University of KwaZulu-Natal]], [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Maryland University College]] (UMUC), [[US]]
# [[University of New Brunswick]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of New England (US)]], [[US]] - unrelated to Australian UNE
# [[University of New England]], [[Australia]]
# [[University of Ostrava]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[University of Ottawa]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of the People]]
# [[University of the Philippines Open University]]
# [[University of Phoenix Online]], [[US]]
# [[University of Pretoria]] (UP), [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Qatar]]
# [[University of Southern Maine]], [[US]]
# [[University of Southern Queensland]], [[Australia]]
# [[University of the South Pacific Online Learning]] ([[USP]])
# [[University of Sao Paulo]] (USP). [[Brazil]]
# [[University of Waikato Online Learning]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[University of Waterloo]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of the West Indies]]
# [[University of Western Ontario]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of Wisconsin Extension]], [[US]]
# [[University of Zambia]]
# [[Utah eLearning Connection‎]], [[US]]
# [[Utah Higher Education Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[UT Telecampus]], University of Texas System, [[US]]
# [[Uttaranchal Open University]], [[India]]
# [[UVB Campus]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University]] ([[VMOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Victoria University of Wellington]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Virtual College of Texas‎]], [[US]]
# [[Virtual Global University]]
# [[Virtual University for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises]]
# [[Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth]]
# [[Virtual University for the Semi-Arid Tropics‎]], [[India]]
# [[Virtual University of Tunisia]]
# [[Walden University]], [[US]]
# [[Waseda University]], [[Japan]]
# [[WashingtonOnline‎]], [[US]]
# [[Wawasan Open University]], [[Malaysia]]
# [[Westwood College]], [[US]]
# [[Western Governors University]], [[US]]
# [[Wyoming Distance Education Consortium‎]] ([[WyDEC]]), [[US]]
# [[Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University]] ([[YCMOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Yunnan Radio & TV University]] ([[YRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Zambian Open University]] ([[ZAOU]])
# [[Zimbabwe Open University]] ([[ZOU]])

'''Also note the list of [[Suspect Providers]].'''

== Interesting Networks ==
# [[EADTU]], the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities
# [[EDEN]], a European Association of universities active in e-learning
# [[EuroPACE]], a European Association of universities active in e-learning
# [[Greek Schools Network]], [[Greece]]

See also [[Abbreviations]].
Other reports that provide good information on programmes to select for further consideration include:

* [http://www.nshu.se/english/page/4713/reports.htm Reports from Swedish Net Agency study trips]
* [[E-learning_Progress_at_Ain-Shams_University]] - a list of virtual universities by region
* [http://ec.europa.eu/education/archive/elearning/doc/studies/market_annex1a_en.pdf The eLearning industry and market in Europe - Lot 1: Appendix to Synthesis Report] by Jane Massy

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SPACE

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''SPACE'', the '''European Network for Business Studies and Languages''', is a network of higher education institutions operating in the European Educational Area and the European Research Area. It is a multicultural, pluralistic and forward looking organisation that strives for educational aims on the basis of equality of gender, thoughts and opinions and a dynamic association of inspired educationalists that want to efficiently cooperate in order to achieve the goals we have set to ourselves and the educational world.

Its web site is http://www.space-eu.info

== The mission of SPACE ==
The aims and objectives of SPACE are:

* to increase the professional skills of students in higher education, and those who aspire to it through lifelong learning;
* to stimulate the language and intercultural awareness of those learners for whom we are the intermediaries;
* to further the employment prospects of the same learners by helping them develop their skills and competencies;
* to enhance the professional skills of staff at partner institutions by sharing with each other innovative ideas and examples of good practice;
* to encourage applied research in all professional higher education institutions, along the lines of the Bologna agreement;
* to grow as a network so as to become more representative by expansion in existing member countries and getting ourselves involved in new European markets, and also in non-European markets for institutions which endorse our mission statement and constitute an added value for our European network;
* to facilitate the implementation of the Bologna process in our member institutions by informing our members of the ongoing processes on Bachelor and Master’s level, and on the Short Cycle programmes within the First Cycle, thus stating that our network is offering undergraduate degrees (Bachelor level), completed by graduate and postgraduate degrees (Master’s level);
* to promote the idea of a common European heritage and future through the study of the European integration process;
* to build bridges with the business community in order to enable SPACE members to provide to their students an effective and industry-relevant education, as well as help schools enhance their reach and impact on a number of key stakeholders.

In order to reach those goals, SPACE aims at:

* developing educational programmes which maintain a high degree of quality across the range of partner institutions;
* adopting a flexible and online approach to programme provision across our network members;
* encouraging the exchange of students to develop an awareness of other cultures and values;
* encouraging the exchange of staff of partners as a means for staff development and for creation of awareness of different academic cultures;
* sharing expertise and know-how in various disciplines, in project work and other joint initiatives;
* developing in the affiliated institutions a spirit for quality in teaching and a sense for research;
* making education more accessible to all, including underprivileged groups by lowering the thresholds to higher education via the recognition of experiential learning;
* facilitating the bridging of the gap between higher education institutions and the business community and key stakeholders.

== Activities of SPACE ==

Activities of SPACE include amongst others:
* offering the possibility for students and young employees to sit and pass European exams validated by SPACE. The SPACE European Diplomas and Certificates highlight the "employability" of the candidates, their flexibility as well as their professional competences and skills.

* supporting mobility, acting as a platform of information on new European mobility programme and for work placements opportunities to students at SPACE member institutions, preparing both students and teachers for the stay abroad via on-line modules, etc.

* organizing two important networking events a year, always hosted at a SPACE member Institution: The Annual Plenary Meeting and Conference (in Spring) and the Autumn Meeting.

* looking for common denominators for European joint degrees ("Learning-by-Sharing"). We look for:

* offering online courses:

#European Studies, an introduction course on undergraduate level (Bachelor) for business students and students in economics.
# European Studies, an introduction course on undergraduate level (Bachelor) for language students and students in hotel management and tourism.
# Intercultural Communication,a blended online course on undergraduate level (Bachelor) AND graduate level (Master) for both language and business students. The course is developed with support from the European Commission and covers currently 29 European countries.
# International Strategic Management, this course is meant for business students in general.
# Intercultural Communication (ICC) Training Tools for Entrepreneurs: in development

These online courses are free for SPACE members and available on the SPACE Dokeos platform (only accessible to members at http://dokeos.hogent.be/)

== History of SPACE ==

SPACE was founded in Lille, [[France]], in 1989.

== The SPACE Office ==

The SPACE headquarters is located in Gent, [[Belgium]], colocated with [http://www.hogent.be/ University College Gent].

== Members ==

SPACE has about 90 members in 30 countries (in Europe as well as outside Europe). For a memberslist see: http://www.space-eu.info/space_membership.aspx?showmembers=true

There are three categories of membership and/or partnership in SPACE:
* Full members: institutional members consisting of properly constituted and recognized European colleges, business schools or universities.

* Associate members: recognised professional bodies, companies, recognised associations of Institutions in Higher Education or recognized colleges, business schools or universities from outside Europe.

* Affiliated associations: partners with whom SPACE may conclude an agreement of partnership can be business partners (companies, Chamber of Commerce, Business partners ) and complementary Networks for mutual benefit and additional networking opportunities. Affiliated associations at the moment include: [[EURASHE]], European Association of Institutions in Higher Education; [[EDINEB]], Network for Educational Innovation for Economics and Business; [http://www.nibsnet.org NIBS], Network of International Business Schools; [http://www.ifoa.it/ulixes/ Ulixes], European Union Training and Research E.E.I.G. (European Economic Interest Group), [http://ccid.cc CCID], Community Colleges for International Development Inc.; and [[EuroPACE ivzw]].

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Pegaso Telematic University

2009-10-12T16:18:55Z

Biekeschreurs:

The ''Università telematica Pegaso'' (Pegaso Telematic University) supports distance and fully online learning. It is based in Naples, [[Italy]].

The Università Telematica Pegaso was established by Ministerial Decree in April 2006. It is described in promotional materials as both a private entity and an Open University (suggesting a need for further research).

The teaching methodology involves lesson plans consisting of learning objects (pieces of educational content) binding together multiple tools, materials and services. A student may receive: text-based lessons with bibliographical references, notes, etc..; slides (rich text, tables, images, graphics, etc..); audio commentary by the teacher; and video lectures. Courses are available in synchronous mode and / or asynchronous mode, and include online self-examination.

They offer several ECP (E-learning Center Point) around the country, distributors of knowledge and offer several tools, is the same than the university but smaller. The e-learning points are spaces endowed with self learning assisted, freely available, where the individual , with his needs, competences, expectations and motivations, becomes the first subject of the supply and the formative intervention; he, opportunely assisted and oriented, becomes the direct protagonist, once that the learning objectives and the choice of his own formative course have been defined.

The university web site is at http://www.unipegaso.it











See [[Università telematica Pegaso (Italian)]] for the Italian language page.
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Pandeion University for Social and Political Sciences

2009-10-12T16:18:32Z

Biekeschreurs:

The ''Pandeion University for Social and Political Sciences'' ('''Panteion University for Social and Political Sciences'''; Panteion University) supports longlife education and training via various educational applications, such as distance
learning, telematics and multimedia.

The university is located in Athens, [[Greece]]. Founded in 1927, it is among the three oldest universities of political sciences in Europe. The Panteion University has roughly 16,500 registered undergraduates; teaching and administrative staff number about 500. It consists of 13 postgraduate courses across three research institutes, 18 research centres and four laboratories. The university partners with 65 universities and institutes from 17 European countries.

The Pandeion University for Social and Political Sciences web site is at http://www.panteion.gr/










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Programmes

2009-10-12T16:13:13Z

Biekeschreurs: /* European (in the sense of EU, EEA and Switzerland) */

''The following list includes the lists of institutions which [[The e-University Compendium]] and the UNESCO [http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/linksliste.php IIEP List] feel are worthy of consideration as virtual universities. In the next phase, we have also included many of the accredited open universities around the world, and virtual elearning initiatives mentioned in other research projects or relevant sources of information.'' You can have a look at our [[original list of programmes.]] For various sources of information please check our [[Publications]] Page

We present the interesting programmes here as European versus Rest of The World. We appreciate that reaching a common agreement as to what constitutes ‘Europe’ is quite a complex task and one which reaches beyond the boundaries of a European Project like Re.ViCa. We have therefore taken the decision as a project team to use a definition of Europe that fits between a narrow definition of Europe as being made up of the 27 member states of the European Union and the broader geographic definition of Europe. We define Europe for the purposes of our work in Re.ViCa as including the countries of the EU, EEA and Switzerland. This means that the ‘Rest of the World’ refers to all countries which do not fall within this definition of Europe. Each Notable e-Learning Initiative is categorized and you can find per entry, to what category they belong. If you click on the category, you can find all other initiatives that belong to that category. You can find for example all "private providers" or "national initiatives".

== European (in the sense of EU, EEA and Switzerland) ==
# [[Aalborg University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Aarhus University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Academy of Performing Arts in Prague]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie]], [[AUF]], [[Canada]]
# [[AKAD Privat-Hochschulen]], [[Germany]]
# [[Apertus Foundation]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]]
# [[Athens University of Economics and Business]], [[Greece]]
# [[Bavarian Virtual University]] ([[Virtuelle Universität Bayern]]), [[Germany]]
# [[BI Norwegian School of Management]], [[Norway]]
# [[Budapest University of Technology and Economics]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Bulgarian Virtual University]] ([[BVU]]), [[Bulgaria]]
# [[Business Academy West]], [[Denmark]]
# [[CAmpus Numerique en Economie-GEstion]] ([[CANEGE]]), [[France]]
# [[Campus Numériques Français ]], [[France]]
# [[Canal U]], [[France]]
# [[Central European University]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance]] ([[CNED]]), [[France]]
# [[Centro estudios financieros]], [[Spain]]
# [[Clyde Virtual University]] ([[CVU]]), [[Scotland]] - [[UK]]
# [[College of European and Regional Studies]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[College of Nursing and Midwifery]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers]], [[France]]
# [[Copenhagen University College of Engineering]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Czech Technical University in Prague]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[Danish Virtual University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Dennis Gabor Applied University]] ([[DGAU]]), [[Hungary]]
# [[Distance and International Study Center]] ([[DISC]]), TU Kaiserslautern, [[Germany]]
# [[Distance Education Study Centre]] ([[DESC]]), [[Latvia]]
# [[Dublin City University]], [[Ireland]]
# [[Dutch Digital University]], ([[DDU]]), [[Netherlands]]
# [[E-Campus Telematic University]], [[Italy]]
# [[Engineering College of Aarhus]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Eötvös Lóránt University]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Erasmus University College Brussels]], ([[EhB]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Estonian Business School Open University]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian e-Learning Development Centre]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian e-University]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian e-Vocational School]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian IT College]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Eszterházy Károly College]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Europäische Fernhochschule Hamburg]] [[Germany]]
# [[European University Viadrina]], [[Germany]]
# [[Fédération Interuniversitaire de l'Enseignement à Distance]] ([[FIED]]), [[France]]
# [[Fernfachhochschule Schweiz]], [[Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences]], [[FFHS]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[FernUniversität Hagen]], [[Germany]]
# [[Finnish Online University of Applied Sciences]], [[VirtuaaliAMK]], [[Finland]]
# [[Finnish Virtual University]], [[FVU]], [[Finland]]
# [[The Foundation Fernstudien Schweiz]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[Ghent University Association]] ([[AUGent]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Ghent University]] ([[UGent]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Global Virtual University]] - and see in particular [[University of Agder]], [[Norway]]
# [[Gotland University]], [[Sweden]]
# [[Guglielmo Marconi Telematic University]], [[Italy]]
# [[Hamburger Fernhochschule]] [[Germany]]
# [[Hellenic Open University]] ([[HOU]]), [[Greece]]
# [[Henley Management College]], [[England]]
# [[Hibernia College]], [[Ireland]]
# [[Hochschulverbund Virtuelle Fachhochschule]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[Instituto de formación de postgrado]], [[Spain]]
# [[Interactive University]], [[Scotland]] - [[UK]]
# [[Intercultural Open University]], the [[Netherlands]]
# [[International Business Academy]] ([[IBA]]), [[Denmark]]
# [[International Telematic University UNINETTUNO]], [[Italy]]
# [[International University of Andalusia]], [[Spain]]
# [[IT University West]], [[Denmark]]
# [[IT-University of Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Jutland University College]], [[Denmark]]
# [[KHiS]], [[Sweden]]
# [[Klagenfurt University]], [[Austria]]
# [[KTH Royal Institute of Technology]], [[Sweden]]
# [[learndirect]], [[UK]]
# [[Leidse Onderwijsinstellingen]], [[LOI]], [[Netherlands]]
# [[Lithuanian Virtual University]], [[Lithuania]]
# [[Lübeck University of Applied Sciences]], [[Germany]]
# [[Lund University]] NetUniversity, [[Sweden]]
# [[Mediterranean Network of Universities]], [[Italy]]
# [[METID-Politecnico di Milano]], [[Italy]]
# [[Middlesex University]] Global Campus, [[UK]]
# [[Mid Sweden University]], [[Sweden]]
# [[MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences]], [[Hungary]]
# [[National College for School Leadership]] ([[NCSL]]) of the [[UK]]
# [[NBPortal.pl]], [[Poland]]
# [[NETTUNO]], [[Italy]]
# [[Networked University]], [[Norway]] - the same as the [[Norwegian Networked University]]
# [[NHSU]], the ''National Health Service University'', [[UK]]
# [[NKI Internet College]], [[Norway]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[NKS Nettstudier]], [[Norway]]
# [[Norway Opening Universities]] ([[NOU]]) - an agency - [[Norway]]
# [[Norwegian Networked University]] ([[NVU]]) - a universities association - [[Norway]]
# [[oncampus]], [[Germany]]
# [[Open Estonia Foundation]], [[OEF]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Open Universiteit Nederland]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Open University of Cyprus]] (OUC), [[Cyprus]]
# [[Open University]] of the [[United Kingdom]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[OSCAIL]], [[Ireland]]
# [[Pandeion University for Social and Political Sciences]], [[Greece]]
# [[Pegaso Telematic University]], [[Italy]]
# [[Peoples Open Access Educational Initiative]] ([[Peoples-uni]]), [[UK]]
# [[Polish Virtual University]], [[PUW]], [[Poland]]
# [[Robert Gordon University]], [[Scotland]]
# [[Roskilde University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Scottish Knowledge]], [[UK]]
# [[Scuola IaD]], [[Italy]]
# [[Sheffield Hallam University]], [[UK]]
# [[Silesian University of Technology]], [[Poland]]
# [[Sør-Trøndelag University College]], [[Norway]]
# [[SPACE]], [[Belgium]]
# [[Staffordshire University]], [[UK]]
# [[Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava‎]], [[Romania]]
# [[Sulinet Digital Knowledge Base]], [[SDT]] [[Hungary]]
# [[Swedish Net University]], [[Sweden]]
# [[Swiss Virtual Campus]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[SZÁMALK Education and Information Technology Ltd.]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Tallinn University]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Tallinn University of Technology]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Technical University of Graz]], [[Austria]]
# [[The Global university system]], [[Finland]]
# [[The National & Kapodistrian University of Athens]], [[Greece]]
# [[Tiger Leap Foundation]], [[TLF]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Tiger University Program]], [[Estonia]]
# [[UHI Millennium Institute]], [[Scotland]] - [[UK]]
# [[UKeU]], [[UK]]
# [[Universidad a distancia de Madrid]], [[Spain]]
# [[Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia]] ([[UNED]]), [[Spain]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Universidade Aberta]], [[Uab]], [[Portugal]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Universidade Católica Portuguesa]], [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidade de Aveiro]], [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidade do Minho]], [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidade do Porto]] ([[UP]]), [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidad Politécnica de Madrid]] ([[UPM]]), [[Spain]]
# [[Universitat Oberta de Catalunya]], [[Catalonia]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Université Virtuelle en Pays de la Loire ]], [[France]]
# [[Université Virtuelle Francophone]] ([[Virtual Francophone University]]), [[France]]
# [[Universités numériques en région]] ([[UNR]]), [[France]]
# [[Universités Numériques Thématiques]] ([[UNT]]), [[France]]
# [[University College Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College Lillebaelt]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College of Northern Denmark]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College Sealand]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College South]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University of the Aegean]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Agder]], [[Norway]]
# [[University of Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University of Gavle]], [[Sweden]]
# [[University of Granada]], [[Spain]]
# [[University of Hradec Kralove]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[University of Ioannina]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria]], [[Canary Islands]], [[Spain]]
# [[University of Liverpool]] Online Education [[UK]]
# [[University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Miskolc]], [[Hungary]]
# [[University of Oslo]], [[Norway]]
# [[University of Piraeus]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering]], [[FEUP]], [[Portugal]]
# [[University of Southern Denmark]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University of Tartu]], [[Estonia]]
# [[University of Thessaly]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of the West of Scotland]], [[UK]]
# [[University of Ulster]] Campus One, [[Northern Ireland]], [[UK]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[University of Urbino "Carlo Bo"]], [[Italy]]
# [[University of West Hungary]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]] ([[VUB]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Warsaw University Centre for Open and Multimedia Education]] ([[COME]] ), [[Poland]]
# [[Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule]], [[Germany]]
# [[Zentralstelle für Fernstudien an Fachhochschulen]] ([[ZFH]]), [[Germany]]

=== Virtual Campuses (VC) supported by the European Commission ===

==== Running projects (until end of 2009)====
# [[E-learning in Distributed Data Network Laboratory]] ([[EdiNet]])
# [[European Teachers and Trainers campus]] ([[eTT.Campus]])
# [[History On Line]]
# [[OIKODOMOS: a virtual campus to promote the study of dwelling in contemporary Europe]]
# [[Virtual Campus for A Sustainable Europe]] ([[VCSE]])
# [[Virtual Campus for Digital Students]] ([[ViCaDiS]])
# [[Virtual Campus for SMEs in a Multicultural Milieu]]
# [[Virtual Campus on Post-master Studies in Architecture]] ([[e-archidoct]])
# [[Web-based health Organisations Learning Environment]] ([[WHOLE]])

==== Ceased activities ====
# [[European Master in Comparative Urban Studies]] ([[e-URBs]])

==== Virtual Campus beyond EU Funding ====
# [[European Virtual Campus for Biomedical Engineering]] ([[EVICAB]]):The project was funded by the European Commission for two years from 1.1.2006 till 31.12.2007. At present the funding id provided by other sources.
# [[League of European Research Universities virtual campus]] ([[e-LERU]])
# [[Law & ICT Shared Virtual Campus]] ([[LAW&ICT]])

==== Ceased? ====
# [[Bio-eTrain]]
# [[Multiple intelligences instructional design framework for virtual classes]]
# [[Reuse and Sharing of e-Learning Courses in GI Science Education]] ([[eduGI]])
# [[VIrtual campus for virtual space design Provided for european Architects]] ([[VIPA]])
# [[New e-learning Environment for European SME's Employees]] ([[CREATEL]])
# [[Virtual COPERNICUS-CAMPUS]]
# [[Virtual European Banking School]] ([[VEBS]])
# [[ICT Platform for Online Learning and Experiences Accreditation in the Mobility Programme]] ([[PLATO]])
# [[Erasmus Virtual Economics & Management Studies Exchange]] ([[EVENE]])

== Rest of the World ==

''Note that a few of these initiatives have ceased or merged by 2009.''

# [[Abilene Christian University]], [[US]]
# [[Africa University Virtual Classroom]], [[Zimbabwe]]
# [[African Virtual University]] ([[AVU]])
# [[Al-Balqa' Applied University]], [[Jordan]]
# [[Allama Iqbal Open University]] ([[AIOU]]), [[Pakistan]]
# [[Al-Madinah International University]] ([[MEDIU]]), [[Malaysia]]
# [[Almaty Technological University]], [[Kazakhstan]]
# [[Al-Quds Open University]], [[Palestine]]
# [[Al-Quds University]], [[Palestine]]
# [[American InterContinental University]] ([[AIU]]), [[US]]
# [[Amur State University]], [[Russia]]
# [[Anadolu University]], [[Turkey]]
# [[Andrew Jackson University‎]], [[US]]
# [[Anna Maria College]], [[US]]
# [[Arab American University for Distance Learning]], [[Jordan]]
# [[Arab Open University]] ([[AOU]])
# [[Arizona Universities Network]] ([[AZUN]]), [[United States]]
# [[ASEAN Virtual University]]
# [[Ashworth College]], [[US]]
# [[Ashford University]], [[US]]
# [[Asia International Open University]] (AIOU), [[Macao]]
# [[Assumption University]], [[Thailand]]
# [[Athabasca University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Auckland University of Technology]] ([[AUT]]), [[New Zealand]]
# [[Australian Catholic University]]
# [[Australian National University]]
# [[Bangalore University]], [[India]]
# [[Bangladesh Open University]] ([[BOU]])
# [[Bankit University Teledukasi‎]], [[Indonesia]]
# [[BCcampus]], [[Canada]]
# [[Beijing Foreign Studies University]] ([[BFSU]]), [[China]]
# [[Beijing Normal University]] ([[BNU]]), [[China]]
# [[Beijing Radio & TV University]] ([[BTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Beirut University Online]], [[Lebanon]]
# [[Best Virtual Universities Organisation]]
# [[Big 12 Engineering Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia‎]], [[US]]
# [[British Columbia Open University]] ([[BCOU]]), [[Canada]]
# [[California Virtual Campus]] ([[CVC]]), [[US]]
# [[California Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[Campus Numerique Francophone de Dakar]], [[Senegal]]
# [[Campus Saskatchewan‎]], [[Canada]]
# [[Campus Virtual de Salud Publica]] - an international initiative
# [[Canadian Virtual University]] ([[CVU]])
# [[CAP College]], [[Philippines]]
# [[Capella University]], [[US]]
# [[Cardean University]], [[US]]
# [[Carleton University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Carnegie Mellon University]], [[US]]
# [[Cederj]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Charles Sturt University]] ([[CSU]]), [[Australia]]
# [[Charter Oak State College‎]], [[US]]
# [[China Central Radio & TV University]] ([[CCRTVU]])
# [[Chinhoyi University of Technology]], [[Zimbabwe]]
# [[Coastline Community College‎]], [[US]]
# [[Colorado University Online]], [[US]]
# [[Colorado Community Colleges Online]], [[US]]
# [[Colorado Technical University‎]], [[US]]
# [[Columbia Southern University]], [[US]]
# [[Community College System of New Hampshire]] ([[CCSNH]]), [[US]]
# [[Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[Corinthian Colleges]], [[US]]
# [[Curtin University of Technology]], [[Australia]]
# [[CVA-RICESU]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Cyber U]], [[United States]]
# [[Cyber University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Daegu Cyber University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Deakin University]], [[Australia]]
# [[DePaul University]], [[US]]
# [[DeVry University]], [[US]]
# [[Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University]] ([[BRAOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University]], [[India]]
# [[Drexel University Online]], [[US]]
# [[Duke University]], [[US]]
# [[Dunia Moja]],[[South Africa]]
# [[DUOC UC]], [[Chile]]
# [[Early Childhood Development Virtual University]] ([[ECDVU]]), [[Canada]]
# [[e-Berkeley]], [[US]]
# [[eCampus Alberta]], [[Canada]]
# [[eChina]] e-learning collaboration between [[UK]] and [[China]]
# [[ECOESAD]], [[Mexico]]
# [[e-Cornell]], [[US]]
# [[Edith Cowan University]], [[Australia]]
# [[Egyptian E-Learning University]]
# [[e-Learnz]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Electronic University Consortium of South Dakota]], [[US]]
# [[Empire State College]], [[US]]
# [[e-TQM College]], [[Dubai]] - see [[Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University]]
# [[Euclid University]] - an international initiative
# [[Ewha Womans University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Faculdade Pitágoras]], [[Brazil]]
# [[FATECE]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Fathom.com]], [[US]]
# [[FGV Online]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Fisheries College, Bac Ninh]] ([[FC]]), [[Vietnam]]
# [[Florida Community College]], [[US]]
# [[Full Sail University]], [[US]]
# [[FUNIBER Virtual Campus]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Gama Virtual Campus UGF]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Georgia G.L.O.B.E.]], [[US]]
# [[Georgia Virtual Technical College]], [[US]]
# [[Global University Alliance]] - several meanings
# [[Great Plains IDEA]], [[US]]
# [[Hanoi Open University]], [[Vietnam]]
# [[Hanyang Cyber University]] ([[HYCU]]), [[Korea]]
# [[Harvard University Extension School]], [[US]]
# [[Hashemite University]], [[Jordan]]
# [[Health Sciences University of Mongolia]]
# [[Henan Radio & TV University]] ([[HNRTVU]])
# [[Ho Chi Minh City Open University]] ([[HCMCOU]]), [[Vietnam]]
# [[Hong Kong Polytechnic University]] Cyber U
# [[Hong Kong Virtual University]]
# [[ictQATAR]], [[Qatar]]
# [[Idaho Electronic Campus]], [[US]]
# [[Illinois Community Colleges Online‎]], [[US]]
# [[Illinois Virtual Campus]], [[US]]
# [[Independent Study in Idaho]], [[US]]
# [[Indian Institutes of Technology]] ([[IITs]]), [[India]]
# [[Indiana University Online]], [[US]]
# [[Indira Gandhi National Open University]], [[India]]
# [[Inner Mongolia Radio & TV University]] ([[IMRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Institute of Information Technology]] ([[Vietnam]])
# [[Institute of Distance and Continuing Education]], [[Guyana]] (in South America)
# [[International Cyber University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Iowa Community College Online Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[Iranian Virtual University]], [[Iran]]
# [[Isfehan Virtual University]] ([[Iran]])
# [[Ivy Tech Community College]] ([[US]])
# [[Jiangsu Radio & TV University]] ([[JSRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Jones International University]], [[US]]
# [[K. K. Handique State University]], [[India]]
# [[Kaplan College]], [[US]]
# [[Karnataka State Open University]] ([[KSOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Keio University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Keller Graduate School of Management]], [[US]]
# [[Kentucky Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[Kenyatta University]], [[Kenya]]
# [[Knowledge International University]], [[Saudi Arabia]]
# [[Korea National Open University]] ([[KNOU]])
# [[Korea Virtual Campus]]
# [[Kota Open University]], [[India]] - see [[Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University]]
# [[Kuban Institute of International Business and Management]], [[Russia]]
# [[Lakehead University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Lansbridge University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Laureate Education]], [[US]]
# [[Laurentian University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Lehigh University]], [[US]]
# [[Louisiana Board of Regents]], [[US]]
# [[Mackenzie Presbyterian University]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University]] ([[MPBOU]]), [[India]]
# [[MarylandOnline‎]], [[US]]
# [[Massachusetts Colleges Online]] ([[MCO]]), [[US]]
# [[Massey University]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Mediterranean Virtual University]] - international consortium
# [[Michigan State University]], [[US]]
# [[Michigan Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[Minnesota Online‎]], [[US]]
# [[MIT]], [[US]]
# [[Modern University of the Humanities]], [[Russia]]
# [[Montana University System‎]], [[US]]
# [[Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics]] ([[MESI]]), [[Russia]]
# [[Mount Royal College]], [[Canada]]
# [[Multimedia University]], [[Malaysia]]
# [[Nalanda Open University]], [[India]]
# [[Nanyang Technological University]], [[Singapore]]
# [[National Universities Degree Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[National Open University of Nigeria]]
# [[National Open University]], [[Taiwan]]
# [[National Science and Technology Program for e-Learning in Taiwan]]
# [[National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning]] ([[NPTEL]]), [[India]]
# [[National University of Science and Technology]] ([[NUST]]), [[Zimbabwe]]
# [[National University of Singapore]]
# [[Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University]] ([[NMMU]]), [[South Africa]]
# [[Netaji Subhas Open University]] ([[NSOU]]), [[India]]
# [[NetVarsity]], [[India]]
# [[New Jersey Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[NextEd]]
# [[NJEDGE.net]], [[US]]
# [[Northcentral University]], [[US]]
# [[North Dakota University System Online‎]] ([[NDUSO]]), [[US]]
# [[North-West University]] ([[NWU]]), [[South Africa]]
# [[Nova Southeastern University]], [[US]]
# [[Ohio Learning Network‎]] ([[OLN]]), [[US]]
# [[Ohio University Without Boundaries]] ([[OUWB]]), [[US]]
# [[Old Dominion University]], [[US]]
# [[Online CSU]], [[US]]
# [[Online University Consortium]] ([[OUC]]), [[US]]
# [[Open Learning Agency]] ([[OLA]]), [[Canada]]
# [[Open Polytechnic of New Zealand]]
# [[Open Training and Education Network]] ([[OTEN]]), [[Australia]]
# [[Open Universities Australia]] - formerly Open Learning Australia
# [[Open University for Adults]] ([[UAPA]]), [[Dominican Republic]]
# Open University of Brazil - see [[Universidade Aberta do Brasil]]
# [[Open University of China]]
# [[Open University of Hong Kong]] ([[OUHK]])
# [[Open University of Israel]] ([[OUI]])
# [[Open University of Japan]] ([[OUJ]])
# [[Open University of Libya]]
# [[Open University of Malaysia]]
# [[Open University of Sri Lanka]] ([[OUSL]])
# [[Open University of Sudan]] ([[OUS]])
# [[Open University of Tanzania]] ([[OUT]])
# [[Oregon Community Colleges Distance Learning‎]] ([[OCCDL]]), [[US]]
# [[Oregon Network for Education‎]] (ONE), [[US]]
# [[Orenburg State University‎]], [[Russia]]
# [[Otago University]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Pakistan Virtual University]]
# [[Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila Open University]], [[Philippines]]
# [[Park University]], [[US]]
# [[Payame Noor University]] ([[PNU]]), [[Iran]]
# [[Peer 2 Peer University]] ([[P2PU]]), [[US]]
# [[Penn State World Campus]], [[US]]
# [[Phnom Penh International University]], [[Cambodia]]
# [[Polivirtual]], [[Mexico]]
# [[Polytechnic University of the Philippines Open University]] ([[PUP-OU]]), [[Philippines]]
# [[Pt. Sunderlal Sharma Open University]] ([[PSSOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Punjab Technical University Virtual Campus]], [[India]]
# [[PurpleTrain.com]]
# [[Queen's University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Queensland University of Technology]] ([[QUT]]), [[Australia]]
# [[R1edu.org‎]], [[US]]
# [[Ramkhamhaeng University]], [[Thailand]]
# [[Regis University]], [[US]]
# [[Rey Juan Carlos University]] ([[URJC]]), [[Spain]]
# [[Rio Salado College]], [[US]]
# [[RMIT]], [[Australia]]
# [[Royal Roads University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Ryerson University]], [[Canada]]
# [[SAIDI School of OD]], [[Philippines]]
# [[Samtse College of Education]], [[Bhutan]]
# [[Savannah College of Art and Design]], [[US]]
# [[School of the Future]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Seoul Digital University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Shaanxi Radio & TV University]] ([[SXRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Shanghai TV University]] ([[STVU]] or [[SHTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Shenyang Radio & TV University]] ([[SYTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Shinshu University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Shiraz Virtual University]], [[Iran]]
# [[Sichuan Radio & TV University]] ([[SRTVU]]) or ([[SCRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[SIM University]] [[(UniSIM)]], [[Singapore]]
# [[Simon Fraser University]] ([[SFU]]), [[Canada]]
# [[Sokoine University of Agriculture]], [[Tanzania]]
# [[Southeast University‎]], [[Bangladesh]]
# [[Southern California Consortium for Community College Television]], [[US]]
# [[Southern Cross University‎]], [[Australia]]
# [[Southern Institute of Technology]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Southern Regional Electronic Board]] ([[SREB]]), [[US]]
# [[St. Petersburg College]], [[US]]
# [[Stanford University]], [[US]]
# [[Strayer University Online]]
# [[Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University]] ([[STOU]]), [[Thailand]]
# [[Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University]], [[Thailand]]
# [[Syrian Virtual University]] ([[SVU]])
# [[TAFE Open Learning]], [[Australia]]
# [[Tamil Nadu Open University]] ([[TNOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Tamil Virtual University‎]], [[India]]
# [[TechBC]], [[Canada]]
# [[Technikon SA]], [[South Africa]]
# [[Tecnológico de Monterrey]], [[Mexico]]
# [[Tehran Virtual University]], [[Iran]]
# [[Tele-Universite de Quebec ]], [[Quebec]]
# [[Temple University]] Online Learning (OLL) Program, [[US]]
# [[The Global Open University of Zambia]] ([[TGOU]])
# [[The Nursing Education Xchange‎]], [[US]]
# [[Theological College of Zimbabwe]]
# [[Thompson Rivers University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Tianjin Radio & TV University]] ([[TJRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Tohoku University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Tshwane University of Technology]], [[South Africa]]
# [[Tsinghua University]], [[China]]
# [[U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open University]] ([[UPRTOU]]), [[India]]
# [[UC-Berkeley Extension]], [[US]]
# [[UMassOnline]], [[US]]
# [[UNIACC]], [[Chile]]
# [[UNIEDPA]], [[Panama]]
# [[UNISA Online Campus]], [[South Africa]]
# [[United Nations University Online Learning]]
# [[United States Open University]]
# [[Universal College of Learning]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Universidad de Guadalajara]] (UDGVirtual), [[Mexico]]
# [[Universidad Estatal a Distancia]], [[Costa Rica]]
# [[Universidad José Cecilio del Valle]], [[Honduras]]
# [[Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia]] ([[UNAD]]), [[Colombia]]
# [[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras]]
# [[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México]] ([[UNAM]])
# [[Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja]] ([[UTPL]]), [[Ecuador]]
# [[Universidad Virtual de Quilmes]], [[Argentina]]
# [[Universidad Virtual de Salud de Cuba]]
# [[Universidade de Brasilia Centro de Educação a Distância]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Universidade Virtual do Centro-Oeste]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Universidade Virtual Publica do Brasil]]
# [[Universitas 21 Global]], [[Singapore]]
# [[Universitas Terbuka]], [[Indonesia]]
# [[Universiti Sains Malaysia]]
# [[Universiti Teknologi MARA]], [[Malaysia]]
# [[Universiti Tun Abdul Razak]] ([[UNITAR]]), [[Malaysia]]
# [[University College University of Maine System‎]], [[US]]
# [[University of the Andes]], [[Colombia]]
# [[University of the Arctic]]
# [[University of Bahrain]]
# [[University of Baltimore]], [[US]]
# [[University of British Columbia]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of Cape Town]], [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Central Florida]], [[US]]
# [[University of Colombo School of Computing]] ([[UCSC]]), [[Sri Lanka]]
# [[University of Dar es Salaam]], [[Tanzania]]
# [[University of the Free State]] ([[UFS]]), [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Guelph Open Online]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of Hawaii System]], [[US]]
# [[University of Hong Kong]]
# [[University of Illinois Global Campus]], [[US]]
# [[University of Illinois Online]], [[US]]
# [[University of Illinois Springfield‎]] ([[UIS]]), [[US]]
# [[University of Kentucky]], [[US]]
# [[University of KwaZulu-Natal]], [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Maryland University College]] (UMUC), [[US]]
# [[University of New Brunswick]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of New England (US)]], [[US]] - unrelated to Australian UNE
# [[University of New England]], [[Australia]]
# [[University of Ostrava]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[University of Ottawa]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of the People]]
# [[University of the Philippines Open University]]
# [[University of Phoenix Online]], [[US]]
# [[University of Pretoria]] (UP), [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Qatar]]
# [[University of Southern Maine]], [[US]]
# [[University of Southern Queensland]], [[Australia]]
# [[University of the South Pacific Online Learning]] ([[USP]])
# [[University of Sao Paulo]] (USP). [[Brazil]]
# [[University of Waikato Online Learning]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[University of Waterloo]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of the West Indies]]
# [[University of Western Ontario]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of Wisconsin Extension]], [[US]]
# [[University of Zambia]]
# [[Utah eLearning Connection‎]], [[US]]
# [[Utah Higher Education Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[UT Telecampus]], University of Texas System, [[US]]
# [[Uttaranchal Open University]], [[India]]
# [[UVB Campus]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University]] ([[VMOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Victoria University of Wellington]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Virtual College of Texas‎]], [[US]]
# [[Virtual Global University]]
# [[Virtual University for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises]]
# [[Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth]]
# [[Virtual University for the Semi-Arid Tropics‎]], [[India]]
# [[Virtual University of Tunisia]]
# [[Walden University]], [[US]]
# [[Waseda University]], [[Japan]]
# [[WashingtonOnline‎]], [[US]]
# [[Wawasan Open University]], [[Malaysia]]
# [[Westwood College]], [[US]]
# [[Western Governors University]], [[US]]
# [[Wyoming Distance Education Consortium‎]] ([[WyDEC]]), [[US]]
# [[Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University]] ([[YCMOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Yunnan Radio & TV University]] ([[YRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Zambian Open University]] ([[ZAOU]])
# [[Zimbabwe Open University]] ([[ZOU]])

'''Also note the list of [[Suspect Providers]].'''

== Interesting Networks ==
# [[EADTU]], the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities
# [[EDEN]], a European Association of universities active in e-learning
# [[EuroPACE]], a European Association of universities active in e-learning
# [[Greek Schools Network]], [[Greece]]

See also [[Abbreviations]].
Other reports that provide good information on programmes to select for further consideration include:

* [http://www.nshu.se/english/page/4713/reports.htm Reports from Swedish Net Agency study trips]
* [[E-learning_Progress_at_Ain-Shams_University]] - a list of virtual universities by region
* [http://ec.europa.eu/education/archive/elearning/doc/studies/market_annex1a_en.pdf The eLearning industry and market in Europe - Lot 1: Appendix to Synthesis Report] by Jane Massy

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Norwegian Networked University

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The ''Norwegian Networked University'' (Norwegian: '''Nettverksuniversitetet''') (NVU) is an association for fostering professional collaboration in online and flexible learning in [[Norway]]. It is not a university.

It has members from all over Norway (universities and university colleges) - see below for the list.

It is a member of [[ALT]] (UK [[Association for Learning Technology]]) and [[EDEN]] ([[European Distance and E-learning Network]]).

Its web site is at http://www.nvu.no/english_intro.php

For more details see http://www.nvu.no/english_about.php

== Members ==
At present these are six:

* [[Agder University]]
* Bergen University College
* Nord-Trøndelag University College
* Stord/Haugesund University College
* Sør-Trøndelag University College
* University of Stavanger

== Functions ==
NVU:

* is an organ for professional collaboration in the field of flexible learning
* has developed a manual concerning Quality assurance for online learning
* arranges several professional forums every year where people from member institutions can contribute
* has performed a survey of research activitiy and relevant conferences.

== Quality assurance ==
(sourced from http://www.nvu.no/english_manual.php)

NVU has developed an electronic manual of quality criteria for online learning. The manual is to be used for members of the Norwegian Network University and others who are participating in or developing online study programmes.

See http://www.nvu.no/faggrupper/engelsk/main/

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Norwegian Networked University

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The ''Norwegian Networked University'' (Norwegian: '''Nettverksuniversitetet''') (NVU) is an association for fostering professional collaboration in online and flexible learning in [[Norway]]. It is not a university.

It has members from all over Norway (universities and university colleges) - see below for the list.

It is a member of [[ALT]] (UK [[Association for Learning Technology]]) and [[EDEN]] ([[European Distance and E-learning Network]]).

Its web site is at http://www.nvu.no/english_intro.php

For more details see http://www.nvu.no/english_about.php

== Members ==
At present these are six:

* [[Agder University]]
* Bergen University College
* Nord-Trøndelag University College
* Stord/Haugesund University College
* Sør-Trøndelag University College
* University of Stavanger

== Functions ==
NVU:

* is an organ for professional collaboration in the field of flexible learning
* has developed a manual concerning Quality assurance for online learning
* arranges several professional forums every year where people from member institutions can contribute
* has performed a survey of research activitiy and relevant conferences.

== Quality assurance ==
(sourced from http://www.nvu.no/english_manual.php)

NVU has developed an electronic manual of quality criteria for online learning. The manual is to be used for members of the Norwegian Network University and others who are participating in or developing online study programmes.

See http://www.nvu.no/faggrupper/engelsk/main/

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Norwegian Networked University

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Biekeschreurs:

The ''Norwegian Networked University'' (Norwegian: '''Nettverksuniversitetet''') (NVU) is an association for fostering professional collaboration in online and flexible learning in [[Norway]]. It is not a university.

It has members from all over Norway (universities and university colleges) - see below for the list.

It is a member of [[ALT]] (UK [[Association for Learning Technology]]) and [[EDEN]] ([[European Distance and E-learning Network]]).

Its web site is at http://www.nvu.no/english_intro.php

For more details see http://www.nvu.no/english_about.php

== Members ==
At present these are six:

* [[Agder University]]
* Bergen University College
* Nord-Trøndelag University College
* Stord/Haugesund University College
* Sør-Trøndelag University College
* University of Stavanger

== Functions ==
NVU:

* is an organ for professional collaboration in the field of flexible learning
* has developed a manual concerning Quality assurance for online learning
* arranges several professional forums every year where people from member institutions can contribute
* has performed a survey of research activitiy and relevant conferences.

== Quality assurance ==
(sourced from http://www.nvu.no/english_manual.php)

NVU has developed an electronic manual of quality criteria for online learning. The manual is to be used for members of the Norwegian Network University and others who are participating in or developing online study programmes.

See http://www.nvu.no/faggrupper/engelsk/main/

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NETTUNO

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(see [[UNINETTUNO]] for the [[International Telematic University UNINETTUNO]])

(for UNINETTUNO case study see [[UNINETTUNO - case study]])
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''NETTUNO'' ('''Consorzio NETTUNO''', Network per L'Universita Ovunque) was - according to its [http://www.consorzionettuno.it/nettuno/brochure/eng.htm promotional brocure] - the first "telematic and television university in Europe", using 2 satellite TV channels and a "Didactical web portal".

Consorzio NETTUNO was established in 1992 and it included three universities and five companies, in compliance with the law on didactic university rules of the 19 November 1990, n° 341, thanks to which in Italy distance university can count on an institutional reference framework. This law gives the university the opportunity to develop a new training model that is characterised by the implementation of first-level university diploma and also by the enrichment of the training processes modes. Actually, article 11, paragraph 3 provides that distance teaching is included among the distinctive didactic modes used by the universities.

The model proposed by the Italian law is grounded on the idea that distance teaching should be based on the universities’ peculiar functions with the aim of enhancing their higher education offer in framework which is inspired by autonomy and which is open to the flexibility of the initiatives undertaken. The choice is motivated by the belief that university, an istitution basically aimed at advanced level education, can be enabled to play a still crucial role also as it regards the new training needs and the new environment where they are deemed to develop. Consorzio NETTUNO, as organisational and structural mode, adopted the form of a consortium of traditional universities and companies and, as teaching-learning system, was based on a massive use of communication technologies already mature and available on the market at low costs.

The consortium included three universiteis and five companies. In only three years it passed from three to twenty-four universities: Politecnico di Bari, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino an the Universities of L'Aquila, Bologna, Camerino, Cassino, Florence, Genoa, Lecce, Milan, Modena, Naples "Federico II", Seconda Università of Naples, Padua, Parma, Pisa, Rome Tor Vergata, Salerno, Siena, Turin, Trento, Trieste, Viterbo "La Tuscia" and companies such as: Telecom Italia, IRI, RAI, CONFINDUSTRIA and also eleven Technological Poles.

The consortium’s general objectives were to:

* create an area fore education and training with characters of high quality, great capacity of innovation both in terms of contents and methods;
* offer an educational service eliminating space and time limits at the users’ advantage and favour the access and participation both on an individual and group basis;
* use the telecommunication highways, built by means of satellite, cable TV, computer-based and telematich networks and multimedia and hypermedia products to establish new links between the university and industry and new teaching/learning processes or new evaluation systems.
* use technologies as new tools to promote the creation of new educational products, new distance teaching institutional models and new communication and interaction models among individuals having different cultures;
* launch research programmes allowing to identify suitable methodologies also with the purpose of using in more satisfactorily way the ressources provided by a rapidly evolvine technology.

More specifically, Consorzio NETTUNO aims at realising a distance teaching model refuting the ideas of mass production and industrialisation of the training process and valuing the availability of equal educational opportunities to all types of students. The educational practice is characterised by the high quality of the teaching that is delivered by the best university teachers who are fully responsible for the distance teaching-learning process since distance teaching is actually based on traditional universities’ institutional functions. Distance university students enrol to the same course, broadly speaking, they follow the same programme, they are supported by the same teachers, the take the same exams and get the same title as the face-to-face students. It is the same teaching body that usually share their time between internal and external students. As it regards distance students the professors perform all the tasks envisaged for in-campus students besides other ones that are more specifically related to the distance education teacher. It is up to the distance professor to design and prepare the lessons to be delivered on the screen and prepare the materials supplementing the videolesson, such as texts and software, answers to the questions asked to the distance students, exercises made both on a face-to-face basis and telematically using ISDN networks and INTERNET connections, assessments and final exams. All these activities are coordinate among professors belonging not to only one university, but of all universities members of the consortium. This is surely the most innovative component since it allows to involve the professors that are most open to innovate and the best teachers into a collegial educational project. From the organisational and structural viewpoint, the project upon which Consorzio NETTUNO is based relies on structures that, year after year, keep on evolving their model and organisation.

These structures are: the National Centre, the Technological Poles, the Workstations “at home”, the University Technological Centres and the Supplying Universities. Beside individual students, distance education courses are addressed to companies’ staff and in particular to those operatine in the fields of telecommunications, computer science, consumer electronics who are located in geographical areas that are close to the partner universities’s sites. This way companies have the possibility not only to meet the educational needs and/or retraining needs of their staff, but also to offer their staff the chance to continue their university studies to get an academic title that could be used also for carreer development purposes. At their own sites or in premises located in the nearby, companies can set up an area equipped to receive, video record, archive and consult remotely delivered courses supplied with computer/telematic workstations to comunicate with the Universities and Technological Poles. Currently, three technological Poles have been set up at the following companies’ sites: ALENIA, in Naples, ILVA , in Taranto, IVECO, in Turin.

See the Re.ViCa [[Italy]] country report for more information.

The NETTUNO web site is at http://www.consorzionettuno.it/nettuno/brochure/eng.htm

See also [[International Telematic University UNINETTUNO]].











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Programmes

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Biekeschreurs: /* European (in the sense of EU, EEA and Switzerland) */

''The following list includes the lists of institutions which [[The e-University Compendium]] and the UNESCO [http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/linksliste.php IIEP List] feel are worthy of consideration as virtual universities. In the next phase, we have also included many of the accredited open universities around the world, and virtual elearning initiatives mentioned in other research projects or relevant sources of information.'' You can have a look at our [[original list of programmes.]] For various sources of information please check our [[Publications]] Page

We present the interesting programmes here as European versus Rest of The World. We appreciate that reaching a common agreement as to what constitutes ‘Europe’ is quite a complex task and one which reaches beyond the boundaries of a European Project like Re.ViCa. We have therefore taken the decision as a project team to use a definition of Europe that fits between a narrow definition of Europe as being made up of the 27 member states of the European Union and the broader geographic definition of Europe. We define Europe for the purposes of our work in Re.ViCa as including the countries of the EU, EEA and Switzerland. This means that the ‘Rest of the World’ refers to all countries which do not fall within this definition of Europe. Each Notable e-Learning Initiative is categorized and you can find per entry, to what category they belong. If you click on the category, you can find all other initiatives that belong to that category. You can find for example all "private providers" or "national initiatives".

== European (in the sense of EU, EEA and Switzerland) ==
# [[Aalborg University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Aarhus University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Academy of Performing Arts in Prague]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie]], [[AUF]], [[Canada]]
# [[AKAD Privat-Hochschulen]], [[Germany]]
# [[Apertus Foundation]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]]
# [[Athens University of Economics and Business]], [[Greece]]
# [[Bavarian Virtual University]] ([[Virtuelle Universität Bayern]]), [[Germany]]
# [[BI Norwegian School of Management]], [[Norway]]
# [[Budapest University of Technology and Economics]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Bulgarian Virtual University]] ([[BVU]]), [[Bulgaria]]
# [[Business Academy West]], [[Denmark]]
# [[CAmpus Numerique en Economie-GEstion]] ([[CANEGE]]), [[France]]
# [[Campus Numériques Français ]], [[France]]
# [[Canal U]], [[France]]
# [[Central European University]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance]] ([[CNED]]), [[France]]
# [[Centro estudios financieros]], [[Spain]]
# [[Clyde Virtual University]] ([[CVU]]), [[Scotland]] - [[UK]]
# [[College of European and Regional Studies]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[College of Nursing and Midwifery]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers]], [[France]]
# [[Copenhagen University College of Engineering]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Czech Technical University in Prague]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[Danish Virtual University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Dennis Gabor Applied University]] ([[DGAU]]), [[Hungary]]
# [[Distance and International Study Center]] ([[DISC]]), TU Kaiserslautern, [[Germany]]
# [[Distance Education Study Centre]] ([[DESC]]), [[Latvia]]
# [[Dublin City University]], [[Ireland]]
# [[Dutch Digital University]], ([[DDU]]), [[Netherlands]]
# [[E-Campus Telematic University]], [[Italy]]
# [[Engineering College of Aarhus]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Eötvös Lóránt University]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Erasmus University College Brussels]], ([[EhB]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Estonian Business School Open University]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian e-Learning Development Centre]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian e-University]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian e-Vocational School]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian IT College]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Eszterházy Károly College]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Europäische Fernhochschule Hamburg]] [[Germany]]
# [[European University Viadrina]], [[Germany]]
# [[Fédération Interuniversitaire de l'Enseignement à Distance]] ([[FIED]]), [[France]]
# [[Fernfachhochschule Schweiz]], [[Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences]], [[FFHS]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[FernUniversität Hagen]], [[Germany]]
# [[Finnish Online University of Applied Sciences]], [[VirtuaaliAMK]], [[Finland]]
# [[Finnish Virtual University]], [[FVU]], [[Finland]]
# [[The Foundation Fernstudien Schweiz]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[Ghent University Association]] ([[AUGent]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Ghent University]] ([[UGent]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Global Virtual University]] - and see in particular [[University of Agder]], [[Norway]]
# [[Gotland University]], [[Sweden]]
# [[Guglielmo Marconi Telematic University]], [[Italy]]
# [[Hamburger Fernhochschule]] [[Germany]]
# [[Hellenic Open University]] ([[HOU]]), [[Greece]]
# [[Henley Management College]], [[England]]
# [[Hibernia College]], [[Ireland]]
# [[Hochschulverbund Virtuelle Fachhochschule]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[Instituto de formación de postgrado]], [[Spain]]
# [[Interactive University]], [[Scotland]] - [[UK]]
# [[Intercultural Open University]], the [[Netherlands]]
# [[International Business Academy]] ([[IBA]]), [[Denmark]]
# [[International Telematic University UNINETTUNO]], [[Italy]]
# [[International University of Andalusia]], [[Spain]]
# [[IT University West]], [[Denmark]]
# [[IT-University of Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Jutland University College]], [[Denmark]]
# [[KHiS]], [[Sweden]]
# [[Klagenfurt University]], [[Austria]]
# [[KTH Royal Institute of Technology]], [[Sweden]]
# [[learndirect]], [[UK]]
# [[Leidse Onderwijsinstellingen]], [[LOI]], [[Netherlands]]
# [[Lithuanian Virtual University]], [[Lithuania]]
# [[Lübeck University of Applied Sciences]], [[Germany]]
# [[Lund University]] NetUniversity, [[Sweden]]
# [[Mediterranean Network of Universities]], [[Italy]]
# [[METID-Politecnico di Milano]], [[Italy]]
# [[Middlesex University]] Global Campus, [[UK]]
# [[Mid Sweden University]], [[Sweden]]
# [[MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences]], [[Hungary]]
# [[National College for School Leadership]] ([[NCSL]]) of the [[UK]]
# [[NBPortal.pl]], [[Poland]]
# [[NETTUNO]], [[Italy]]
# [[Networked University]], [[Norway]] - the same as the [[Norwegian Networked University]]
# [[NewMine Lab]], New Media in Education Laboratory at the Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, [[CH]]
# [[NHSU]], the ''National Health Service University'', [[UK]]
# [[NKI Internet College]], [[Norway]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[NKS Nettstudier]], [[Norway]]
# [[Norway Opening Universities]] ([[NOU]]) - an agency - [[Norway]]
# [[Norwegian Networked University]] ([[NVU]]) - a universities association - [[Norway]]
# [[oncampus]], [[Germany]]
# [[Open Estonia Foundation]], [[OEF]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Open Universiteit Nederland]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Open University of Cyprus]] (OUC), [[Cyprus]]
# [[Open University]] of the [[United Kingdom]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[OSCAIL]], [[Ireland]]
# [[Pandeion University for Social and Political Sciences]], [[Greece]]
# [[Pegaso Telematic University]], [[Italy]]
# [[Peoples Open Access Educational Initiative]] ([[Peoples-uni]]), [[UK]]
# [[Polish Virtual University]], [[PUW]], [[Poland]]
# [[Robert Gordon University]], [[Scotland]]
# [[Roskilde University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Scottish Knowledge]], [[UK]]
# [[Scuola IaD]], [[Italy]]
# [[Sheffield Hallam University]], [[UK]]
# [[Silesian University of Technology]], [[Poland]]
# [[Sør-Trøndelag University College]], [[Norway]]
# [[SPACE]], [[Belgium]]
# [[Staffordshire University]], [[UK]]
# [[Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava‎]], [[Romania]]
# [[Sulinet Digital Knowledge Base]], [[SDT]] [[Hungary]]
# [[Swedish Net University]], [[Sweden]]
# [[Swiss Virtual Campus]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[SZÁMALK Education and Information Technology Ltd.]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Tallinn University]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Tallinn University of Technology]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Technical University of Graz]], [[Austria]]
# [[The Global university system]], [[Finland]]
# [[The National & Kapodistrian University of Athens]], [[Greece]]
# [[Tiger Leap Foundation]], [[TLF]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Tiger University Program]], [[Estonia]]
# [[UHI Millennium Institute]], [[Scotland]] - [[UK]]
# [[UKeU]], [[UK]]
# [[Universidad a distancia de Madrid]], [[Spain]]
# [[Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia]] ([[UNED]]), [[Spain]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Universidade Aberta]], [[Uab]], [[Portugal]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Universidade Católica Portuguesa]], [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidade de Aveiro]], [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidade do Minho]], [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidade do Porto]] ([[UP]]), [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidad Politécnica de Madrid]] ([[UPM]]), [[Spain]]
# [[Universitat Oberta de Catalunya]], [[Catalonia]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Université Virtuelle en Pays de la Loire ]], [[France]]
# [[Université Virtuelle Francophone]] ([[Virtual Francophone University]]), [[France]]
# [[Universités numériques en région]] ([[UNR]]), [[France]]
# [[Universités Numériques Thématiques]] ([[UNT]]), [[France]]
# [[University College Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College Lillebaelt]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College of Northern Denmark]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College Sealand]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College South]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University of the Aegean]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Agder]], [[Norway]]
# [[University of Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University of Gavle]], [[Sweden]]
# [[University of Granada]], [[Spain]]
# [[University of Hradec Kralove]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[University of Ioannina]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria]], [[Canary Islands]], [[Spain]]
# [[University of Liverpool]] Online Education [[UK]]
# [[University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Miskolc]], [[Hungary]]
# [[University of Oslo]], [[Norway]]
# [[University of Piraeus]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering]], [[FEUP]], [[Portugal]]
# [[University of Southern Denmark]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University of Tartu]], [[Estonia]]
# [[University of Thessaly]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of the West of Scotland]], [[UK]]
# [[University of Ulster]] Campus One, [[Northern Ireland]], [[UK]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[University of Urbino "Carlo Bo"]], [[Italy]]
# [[University of West Hungary]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]] ([[VUB]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Warsaw University Centre for Open and Multimedia Education]] ([[COME]] ), [[Poland]]
# [[Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule]], [[Germany]]
# [[Zentralstelle für Fernstudien an Fachhochschulen]] ([[ZFH]]), [[Germany]]

=== Virtual Campuses (VC) supported by the European Commission ===

==== Running projects (until end of 2009)====
# [[E-learning in Distributed Data Network Laboratory]] ([[EdiNet]])
# [[European Teachers and Trainers campus]] ([[eTT.Campus]])
# [[History On Line]]
# [[OIKODOMOS: a virtual campus to promote the study of dwelling in contemporary Europe]]
# [[Virtual Campus for A Sustainable Europe]] ([[VCSE]])
# [[Virtual Campus for Digital Students]] ([[ViCaDiS]])
# [[Virtual Campus for SMEs in a Multicultural Milieu]]
# [[Virtual Campus on Post-master Studies in Architecture]] ([[e-archidoct]])
# [[Web-based health Organisations Learning Environment]] ([[WHOLE]])

==== Ceased activities ====
# [[European Master in Comparative Urban Studies]] ([[e-URBs]])

==== Virtual Campus beyond EU Funding ====
# [[European Virtual Campus for Biomedical Engineering]] ([[EVICAB]]):The project was funded by the European Commission for two years from 1.1.2006 till 31.12.2007. At present the funding id provided by other sources.
# [[League of European Research Universities virtual campus]] ([[e-LERU]])
# [[Law & ICT Shared Virtual Campus]] ([[LAW&ICT]])

==== Ceased? ====
# [[Bio-eTrain]]
# [[Multiple intelligences instructional design framework for virtual classes]]
# [[Reuse and Sharing of e-Learning Courses in GI Science Education]] ([[eduGI]])
# [[VIrtual campus for virtual space design Provided for european Architects]] ([[VIPA]])
# [[New e-learning Environment for European SME's Employees]] ([[CREATEL]])
# [[Virtual COPERNICUS-CAMPUS]]
# [[Virtual European Banking School]] ([[VEBS]])
# [[ICT Platform for Online Learning and Experiences Accreditation in the Mobility Programme]] ([[PLATO]])
# [[Erasmus Virtual Economics & Management Studies Exchange]] ([[EVENE]])

== Rest of the World ==

''Note that a few of these initiatives have ceased or merged by 2009.''

# [[Abilene Christian University]], [[US]]
# [[Africa University Virtual Classroom]], [[Zimbabwe]]
# [[African Virtual University]] ([[AVU]])
# [[Al-Balqa' Applied University]], [[Jordan]]
# [[Allama Iqbal Open University]] ([[AIOU]]), [[Pakistan]]
# [[Al-Madinah International University]] ([[MEDIU]]), [[Malaysia]]
# [[Almaty Technological University]], [[Kazakhstan]]
# [[Al-Quds Open University]], [[Palestine]]
# [[Al-Quds University]], [[Palestine]]
# [[American InterContinental University]] ([[AIU]]), [[US]]
# [[Amur State University]], [[Russia]]
# [[Anadolu University]], [[Turkey]]
# [[Andrew Jackson University‎]], [[US]]
# [[Anna Maria College]], [[US]]
# [[Arab American University for Distance Learning]], [[Jordan]]
# [[Arab Open University]] ([[AOU]])
# [[Arizona Universities Network]] ([[AZUN]]), [[United States]]
# [[ASEAN Virtual University]]
# [[Ashworth College]], [[US]]
# [[Ashford University]], [[US]]
# [[Asia International Open University]] (AIOU), [[Macao]]
# [[Assumption University]], [[Thailand]]
# [[Athabasca University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Auckland University of Technology]] ([[AUT]]), [[New Zealand]]
# [[Australian Catholic University]]
# [[Australian National University]]
# [[Bangalore University]], [[India]]
# [[Bangladesh Open University]] ([[BOU]])
# [[Bankit University Teledukasi‎]], [[Indonesia]]
# [[BCcampus]], [[Canada]]
# [[Beijing Foreign Studies University]] ([[BFSU]]), [[China]]
# [[Beijing Normal University]] ([[BNU]]), [[China]]
# [[Beijing Radio & TV University]] ([[BTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Beirut University Online]], [[Lebanon]]
# [[Best Virtual Universities Organisation]]
# [[Big 12 Engineering Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia‎]], [[US]]
# [[British Columbia Open University]] ([[BCOU]]), [[Canada]]
# [[California Virtual Campus]] ([[CVC]]), [[US]]
# [[California Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[Campus Numerique Francophone de Dakar]], [[Senegal]]
# [[Campus Saskatchewan‎]], [[Canada]]
# [[Campus Virtual de Salud Publica]] - an international initiative
# [[Canadian Virtual University]] ([[CVU]])
# [[CAP College]], [[Philippines]]
# [[Capella University]], [[US]]
# [[Cardean University]], [[US]]
# [[Carleton University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Carnegie Mellon University]], [[US]]
# [[Cederj]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Charles Sturt University]] ([[CSU]]), [[Australia]]
# [[Charter Oak State College‎]], [[US]]
# [[China Central Radio & TV University]] ([[CCRTVU]])
# [[Chinhoyi University of Technology]], [[Zimbabwe]]
# [[Coastline Community College‎]], [[US]]
# [[Colorado University Online]], [[US]]
# [[Colorado Community Colleges Online]], [[US]]
# [[Colorado Technical University‎]], [[US]]
# [[Columbia Southern University]], [[US]]
# [[Community College System of New Hampshire]] ([[CCSNH]]), [[US]]
# [[Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[Corinthian Colleges]], [[US]]
# [[Curtin University of Technology]], [[Australia]]
# [[CVA-RICESU]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Cyber U]], [[United States]]
# [[Cyber University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Daegu Cyber University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Deakin University]], [[Australia]]
# [[DePaul University]], [[US]]
# [[DeVry University]], [[US]]
# [[Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University]] ([[BRAOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University]], [[India]]
# [[Drexel University Online]], [[US]]
# [[Duke University]], [[US]]
# [[Dunia Moja]],[[South Africa]]
# [[DUOC UC]], [[Chile]]
# [[Early Childhood Development Virtual University]] ([[ECDVU]]), [[Canada]]
# [[e-Berkeley]], [[US]]
# [[eCampus Alberta]], [[Canada]]
# [[eChina]] e-learning collaboration between [[UK]] and [[China]]
# [[ECOESAD]], [[Mexico]]
# [[e-Cornell]], [[US]]
# [[Edith Cowan University]], [[Australia]]
# [[Egyptian E-Learning University]]
# [[e-Learnz]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Electronic University Consortium of South Dakota]], [[US]]
# [[Empire State College]], [[US]]
# [[e-TQM College]], [[Dubai]] - see [[Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University]]
# [[Euclid University]] - an international initiative
# [[Ewha Womans University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Faculdade Pitágoras]], [[Brazil]]
# [[FATECE]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Fathom.com]], [[US]]
# [[FGV Online]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Fisheries College, Bac Ninh]] ([[FC]]), [[Vietnam]]
# [[Florida Community College]], [[US]]
# [[Full Sail University]], [[US]]
# [[FUNIBER Virtual Campus]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Gama Virtual Campus UGF]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Georgia G.L.O.B.E.]], [[US]]
# [[Georgia Virtual Technical College]], [[US]]
# [[Global University Alliance]] - several meanings
# [[Great Plains IDEA]], [[US]]
# [[Hanoi Open University]], [[Vietnam]]
# [[Hanyang Cyber University]] ([[HYCU]]), [[Korea]]
# [[Harvard University Extension School]], [[US]]
# [[Hashemite University]], [[Jordan]]
# [[Health Sciences University of Mongolia]]
# [[Henan Radio & TV University]] ([[HNRTVU]])
# [[Ho Chi Minh City Open University]] ([[HCMCOU]]), [[Vietnam]]
# [[Hong Kong Polytechnic University]] Cyber U
# [[Hong Kong Virtual University]]
# [[ictQATAR]], [[Qatar]]
# [[Idaho Electronic Campus]], [[US]]
# [[Illinois Community Colleges Online‎]], [[US]]
# [[Illinois Virtual Campus]], [[US]]
# [[Independent Study in Idaho]], [[US]]
# [[Indian Institutes of Technology]] ([[IITs]]), [[India]]
# [[Indiana University Online]], [[US]]
# [[Indira Gandhi National Open University]], [[India]]
# [[Inner Mongolia Radio & TV University]] ([[IMRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Institute of Information Technology]] ([[Vietnam]])
# [[Institute of Distance and Continuing Education]], [[Guyana]] (in South America)
# [[International Cyber University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Iowa Community College Online Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[Iranian Virtual University]], [[Iran]]
# [[Isfehan Virtual University]] ([[Iran]])
# [[Ivy Tech Community College]] ([[US]])
# [[Jiangsu Radio & TV University]] ([[JSRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Jones International University]], [[US]]
# [[K. K. Handique State University]], [[India]]
# [[Kaplan College]], [[US]]
# [[Karnataka State Open University]] ([[KSOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Keio University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Keller Graduate School of Management]], [[US]]
# [[Kentucky Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[Kenyatta University]], [[Kenya]]
# [[Knowledge International University]], [[Saudi Arabia]]
# [[Korea National Open University]] ([[KNOU]])
# [[Korea Virtual Campus]]
# [[Kota Open University]], [[India]] - see [[Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University]]
# [[Kuban Institute of International Business and Management]], [[Russia]]
# [[Lakehead University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Lansbridge University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Laureate Education]], [[US]]
# [[Laurentian University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Lehigh University]], [[US]]
# [[Louisiana Board of Regents]], [[US]]
# [[Mackenzie Presbyterian University]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University]] ([[MPBOU]]), [[India]]
# [[MarylandOnline‎]], [[US]]
# [[Massachusetts Colleges Online]] ([[MCO]]), [[US]]
# [[Massey University]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Mediterranean Virtual University]] - international consortium
# [[Michigan State University]], [[US]]
# [[Michigan Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[Minnesota Online‎]], [[US]]
# [[MIT]], [[US]]
# [[Modern University of the Humanities]], [[Russia]]
# [[Montana University System‎]], [[US]]
# [[Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics]] ([[MESI]]), [[Russia]]
# [[Mount Royal College]], [[Canada]]
# [[Multimedia University]], [[Malaysia]]
# [[Nalanda Open University]], [[India]]
# [[Nanyang Technological University]], [[Singapore]]
# [[National Universities Degree Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[National Open University of Nigeria]]
# [[National Open University]], [[Taiwan]]
# [[National Science and Technology Program for e-Learning in Taiwan]]
# [[National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning]] ([[NPTEL]]), [[India]]
# [[National University of Science and Technology]] ([[NUST]]), [[Zimbabwe]]
# [[National University of Singapore]]
# [[Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University]] ([[NMMU]]), [[South Africa]]
# [[Netaji Subhas Open University]] ([[NSOU]]), [[India]]
# [[NetVarsity]], [[India]]
# [[New Jersey Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[NextEd]]
# [[NJEDGE.net]], [[US]]
# [[Northcentral University]], [[US]]
# [[North Dakota University System Online‎]] ([[NDUSO]]), [[US]]
# [[North-West University]] ([[NWU]]), [[South Africa]]
# [[Nova Southeastern University]], [[US]]
# [[Ohio Learning Network‎]] ([[OLN]]), [[US]]
# [[Ohio University Without Boundaries]] ([[OUWB]]), [[US]]
# [[Old Dominion University]], [[US]]
# [[Online CSU]], [[US]]
# [[Online University Consortium]] ([[OUC]]), [[US]]
# [[Open Learning Agency]] ([[OLA]]), [[Canada]]
# [[Open Polytechnic of New Zealand]]
# [[Open Training and Education Network]] ([[OTEN]]), [[Australia]]
# [[Open Universities Australia]] - formerly Open Learning Australia
# [[Open University for Adults]] ([[UAPA]]), [[Dominican Republic]]
# Open University of Brazil - see [[Universidade Aberta do Brasil]]
# [[Open University of China]]
# [[Open University of Hong Kong]] ([[OUHK]])
# [[Open University of Israel]] ([[OUI]])
# [[Open University of Japan]] ([[OUJ]])
# [[Open University of Libya]]
# [[Open University of Malaysia]]
# [[Open University of Sri Lanka]] ([[OUSL]])
# [[Open University of Sudan]] ([[OUS]])
# [[Open University of Tanzania]] ([[OUT]])
# [[Oregon Community Colleges Distance Learning‎]] ([[OCCDL]]), [[US]]
# [[Oregon Network for Education‎]] (ONE), [[US]]
# [[Orenburg State University‎]], [[Russia]]
# [[Otago University]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Pakistan Virtual University]]
# [[Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila Open University]], [[Philippines]]
# [[Park University]], [[US]]
# [[Payame Noor University]] ([[PNU]]), [[Iran]]
# [[Peer 2 Peer University]] ([[P2PU]]), [[US]]
# [[Penn State World Campus]], [[US]]
# [[Phnom Penh International University]], [[Cambodia]]
# [[Polivirtual]], [[Mexico]]
# [[Polytechnic University of the Philippines Open University]] ([[PUP-OU]]), [[Philippines]]
# [[Pt. Sunderlal Sharma Open University]] ([[PSSOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Punjab Technical University Virtual Campus]], [[India]]
# [[PurpleTrain.com]]
# [[Queen's University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Queensland University of Technology]] ([[QUT]]), [[Australia]]
# [[R1edu.org‎]], [[US]]
# [[Ramkhamhaeng University]], [[Thailand]]
# [[Regis University]], [[US]]
# [[Rey Juan Carlos University]] ([[URJC]]), [[Spain]]
# [[Rio Salado College]], [[US]]
# [[RMIT]], [[Australia]]
# [[Royal Roads University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Ryerson University]], [[Canada]]
# [[SAIDI School of OD]], [[Philippines]]
# [[Samtse College of Education]], [[Bhutan]]
# [[Savannah College of Art and Design]], [[US]]
# [[School of the Future]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Seoul Digital University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Shaanxi Radio & TV University]] ([[SXRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Shanghai TV University]] ([[STVU]] or [[SHTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Shenyang Radio & TV University]] ([[SYTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Shinshu University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Shiraz Virtual University]], [[Iran]]
# [[Sichuan Radio & TV University]] ([[SRTVU]]) or ([[SCRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[SIM University]] [[(UniSIM)]], [[Singapore]]
# [[Simon Fraser University]] ([[SFU]]), [[Canada]]
# [[Sokoine University of Agriculture]], [[Tanzania]]
# [[Southeast University‎]], [[Bangladesh]]
# [[Southern California Consortium for Community College Television]], [[US]]
# [[Southern Cross University‎]], [[Australia]]
# [[Southern Institute of Technology]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Southern Regional Electronic Board]] ([[SREB]]), [[US]]
# [[St. Petersburg College]], [[US]]
# [[Stanford University]], [[US]]
# [[Strayer University Online]]
# [[Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University]] ([[STOU]]), [[Thailand]]
# [[Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University]], [[Thailand]]
# [[Syrian Virtual University]] ([[SVU]])
# [[TAFE Open Learning]], [[Australia]]
# [[Tamil Nadu Open University]] ([[TNOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Tamil Virtual University‎]], [[India]]
# [[TechBC]], [[Canada]]
# [[Technikon SA]], [[South Africa]]
# [[Tecnológico de Monterrey]], [[Mexico]]
# [[Tehran Virtual University]], [[Iran]]
# [[Tele-Universite de Quebec ]], [[Quebec]]
# [[Temple University]] Online Learning (OLL) Program, [[US]]
# [[The Global Open University of Zambia]] ([[TGOU]])
# [[The Nursing Education Xchange‎]], [[US]]
# [[Theological College of Zimbabwe]]
# [[Thompson Rivers University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Tianjin Radio & TV University]] ([[TJRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Tohoku University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Tshwane University of Technology]], [[South Africa]]
# [[Tsinghua University]], [[China]]
# [[U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open University]] ([[UPRTOU]]), [[India]]
# [[UC-Berkeley Extension]], [[US]]
# [[UMassOnline]], [[US]]
# [[UNIACC]], [[Chile]]
# [[UNIEDPA]], [[Panama]]
# [[UNISA Online Campus]], [[South Africa]]
# [[United Nations University Online Learning]]
# [[United States Open University]]
# [[Universal College of Learning]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Universidad de Guadalajara]] (UDGVirtual), [[Mexico]]
# [[Universidad Estatal a Distancia]], [[Costa Rica]]
# [[Universidad José Cecilio del Valle]], [[Honduras]]
# [[Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia]] ([[UNAD]]), [[Colombia]]
# [[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras]]
# [[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México]] ([[UNAM]])
# [[Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja]] ([[UTPL]]), [[Ecuador]]
# [[Universidad Virtual de Quilmes]], [[Argentina]]
# [[Universidad Virtual de Salud de Cuba]]
# [[Universidade de Brasilia Centro de Educação a Distância]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Universidade Virtual do Centro-Oeste]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Universidade Virtual Publica do Brasil]]
# [[Universitas 21 Global]], [[Singapore]]
# [[Universitas Terbuka]], [[Indonesia]]
# [[Universiti Sains Malaysia]]
# [[Universiti Teknologi MARA]], [[Malaysia]]
# [[Universiti Tun Abdul Razak]] ([[UNITAR]]), [[Malaysia]]
# [[University College University of Maine System‎]], [[US]]
# [[University of the Andes]], [[Colombia]]
# [[University of the Arctic]]
# [[University of Bahrain]]
# [[University of Baltimore]], [[US]]
# [[University of British Columbia]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of Cape Town]], [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Central Florida]], [[US]]
# [[University of Colombo School of Computing]] ([[UCSC]]), [[Sri Lanka]]
# [[University of Dar es Salaam]], [[Tanzania]]
# [[University of the Free State]] ([[UFS]]), [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Guelph Open Online]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of Hawaii System]], [[US]]
# [[University of Hong Kong]]
# [[University of Illinois Global Campus]], [[US]]
# [[University of Illinois Online]], [[US]]
# [[University of Illinois Springfield‎]] ([[UIS]]), [[US]]
# [[University of Kentucky]], [[US]]
# [[University of KwaZulu-Natal]], [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Maryland University College]] (UMUC), [[US]]
# [[University of New Brunswick]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of New England (US)]], [[US]] - unrelated to Australian UNE
# [[University of New England]], [[Australia]]
# [[University of Ostrava]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[University of Ottawa]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of the People]]
# [[University of the Philippines Open University]]
# [[University of Phoenix Online]], [[US]]
# [[University of Pretoria]] (UP), [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Qatar]]
# [[University of Southern Maine]], [[US]]
# [[University of Southern Queensland]], [[Australia]]
# [[University of the South Pacific Online Learning]] ([[USP]])
# [[University of Sao Paulo]] (USP). [[Brazil]]
# [[University of Waikato Online Learning]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[University of Waterloo]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of the West Indies]]
# [[University of Western Ontario]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of Wisconsin Extension]], [[US]]
# [[University of Zambia]]
# [[Utah eLearning Connection‎]], [[US]]
# [[Utah Higher Education Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[UT Telecampus]], University of Texas System, [[US]]
# [[Uttaranchal Open University]], [[India]]
# [[UVB Campus]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University]] ([[VMOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Victoria University of Wellington]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Virtual College of Texas‎]], [[US]]
# [[Virtual Global University]]
# [[Virtual University for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises]]
# [[Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth]]
# [[Virtual University for the Semi-Arid Tropics‎]], [[India]]
# [[Virtual University of Tunisia]]
# [[Walden University]], [[US]]
# [[Waseda University]], [[Japan]]
# [[WashingtonOnline‎]], [[US]]
# [[Wawasan Open University]], [[Malaysia]]
# [[Westwood College]], [[US]]
# [[Western Governors University]], [[US]]
# [[Wyoming Distance Education Consortium‎]] ([[WyDEC]]), [[US]]
# [[Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University]] ([[YCMOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Yunnan Radio & TV University]] ([[YRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Zambian Open University]] ([[ZAOU]])
# [[Zimbabwe Open University]] ([[ZOU]])

'''Also note the list of [[Suspect Providers]].'''

== Interesting Networks ==
# [[EADTU]], the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities
# [[EDEN]], a European Association of universities active in e-learning
# [[EuroPACE]], a European Association of universities active in e-learning
# [[Greek Schools Network]], [[Greece]]

See also [[Abbreviations]].
Other reports that provide good information on programmes to select for further consideration include:

* [http://www.nshu.se/english/page/4713/reports.htm Reports from Swedish Net Agency study trips]
* [[E-learning_Progress_at_Ain-Shams_University]] - a list of virtual universities by region
* [http://ec.europa.eu/education/archive/elearning/doc/studies/market_annex1a_en.pdf The eLearning industry and market in Europe - Lot 1: Appendix to Synthesis Report] by Jane Massy

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Mid Sweden University

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''Mid Sweden University'' ('''Mittuniversitetet''') offers both face-to-face and online education.

Geographically, Mid Sweden University is located in the middle of [[Sweden]]. It is a young university, but its roots date back to as early as 1842, when the 'university' was still a teachers' education college in Härnösand. The university was established in July 1993, when the University Colleges of Sundsvall/Härnösand and Östersund were merged. In July 1995, the Sundsvall/Örnsköldsvik and Sundsvall Colleges of Health Sciences were also incorporated. Ten years later (2005), the Mid Sweden University became a full-status university.

Today, Mid Sweden University has three campuses in Härnösand, Sundsvall and Östersund, with approximately 15,000 students. Around 60% are campus students, while the rest engage in distance education via net-based courses and programs. Every year students from all over the world come to study at Mid Sweden University, which offers courses for international students at all three campuses.

The work of Mid Sweden University is based on undergraduate courses, research and co-operation with regional actors. There are some 700 independent courses, 50 study programs and 30 master programs offer at the university. The number of employees is around 900 (54 professors).

The Mid Sweden University web site is at http://www.miun.se/Mittuniversitetet/Resurser/Genvagar/22137/











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Resources

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== Experts in the field of Virtual campuses ==

[[Advisory Committee]]

[[Experts]]

== Series of reports on eLearning initiatives ==

These include:

* [[The e-University Compendium]] - a collection of 23 reports and some annexes, dating from summer 2004
* [[Megatrends in e-Learning Provision]] - a series of books from the [http://nettskolen.nki.no/in_english/megatrends/index.html Megatrends] Project, 2005-2007
* [[The Development of Virtual Education: A global perspective ]] A study of current trends in the virtual delivery of education, conducted with funding provided by the Department for International Development, London, UK, by [[COL]]

== Individual reports on eLearning initiatives==

* [[Blended learning at the macro level – the experience of the Bavarian Virtual University]]
* [[Lessons to be learned from the failure of the UK e-University]]
* [[Offshore education in the wider context of internationalisation and ICT: experiences and examples from Dutch higher education]]
* The Business of Borderless Education
* [[Using Distance Education for Skills Development]]
* [[Towards a Virtual Campus Observatory for Latin America]] (Extract)
* [[Trainer’s and Professional’s Guide to Quality in Open and Distance Learning]]
* [[Studies in the Context of the E-learning Initiative: Virtual Models of European Universities]]
* [[Survey of Virtual Campus and Virtual University Activities in Europe]]
* [[The Virtual University. Models and Messages. Lessons from Case Studies]]
* [[The Finnish Virtual University. Lessons and Knowledge Exchange Opportunities to Inform Pan-Canadian Plans]]
* [[Cooperation Models for National e-Learning Development in Estonia (example of the Estonian e-Learning Development Centre)]]

== elearning Project outputs ==
* [[MASSIVE - Modelling Advice and Support Services to Integrate the Virtual Component in Higher Education]]
* [[UNIQUe - European University Quality in eLearning]]
* [[E-xcellence - Benchmarking tool for Quality Assessment in e-learning]]
* [[BEING MOBILE - Disseminating Virtual Mobility for Students and Teachers]]
* [[E-LERU - A Virtual Campus for European Universities]]
* [[cEVU - a Collaborative European Virtual University]]
* [[BENVIC - Benchmarking of Virtual Campuses]]
* [[E-MOVE - An operational conception of virtual mobility]]
* [[E.A.S.Y - European Agency for EASY access to Virtual Campus]]
* [[UNIVe - Creating a Network-based e-University Model for the Small Countries in the Context of e-Learning in Europe]]
*[[Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses| PBP-VC - Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses]] Powerpoint Presentation, project outputs, book
*[[fnm-austria ]](Forum Neue Medien in der Lehre österreichischer Universitäten und Fachhochschulen)
# [[Eenovate]]

== Other WIKIs of relevance ==
The following wikis on related topics may be of interest to the audience interested in the Re.ViCa wiki.

(Unless stated otherwise, all wikis use the same [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] software that is used by Re.ViCa.)

# The [http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Main_Page EduTech wiki] run by the [http://www.unige.ch/ University of Geneva] has a large number of definitions of useful terms and concepts in e-learning.
# The [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page OER wiki] run by the [http://www.unesco.org/iiep/ International Institute for Educational Planning] (IIEP) in UNESCO has useful coverage of concepts and projects in the area of Open Educational Resources.
# The [http://elatewiki.org/index.php/Main_Page ELATE wiki] is a US wiki of good practices in e-learning
# The [http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/CETIS_Wiki CETIS wiki] is a a wiki of resources to do with interoperability and standards for e-learning, run by a programme of JISC
# The [http://www.sloan-c-wiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Sloan-C wiki] is full of useful Effective Practices and articles (mostly from [http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/ JALN])
# The [http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page SimTeach] wiki covers education in Multi-User Virtual Environments - see also its interesting "subwiki" on [http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki Second Life] (thanks to [http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm Stephen Downes's blog] for this information)
# The [http://elearning.heacademy.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Higher Education Academy Benchmarking and Pathfinder wiki] has many articles of relevance to the UK e-learning situation.
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia] itself contains many articles on e-learning topics.
# The [http://www.utdc.vuw.ac.nz/emmWiki/index.php/Main_Page eMM wiki] run by Dr [[Stephen Marshall]] of the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) is the repository for the evolving e-Maturity Model ([[eMM]]) methodology for benchmarking e-learning.
# Although it is a web site and blog but not actually a wiki it is worth mentioning the new EU reports on [http://www.nettskolen.com/in_english/megatrends/index.html Megatrends in e-learning provision] which include mini case studies on the [[University of Leicester]], [[University of Ulster]], [[Staffordshire University]] and [[Manchester Metropolitan University]] as well as of course the [[Open University]] and several non-UK providers.
# [http://www.wikieducator.org/Main_Page WikiEducator] is a community resource supported by the [[Commonwealth of Learning]] (COL) for the development of free educational content. Some descriptions of institutions and initiatives relevant to Re.ViCa are available, or are being developed.

In addition to these, it is known that various agencies and associations including [http://connect.educause.edu/ EDUCAUSE] are experimenting with wikis.

== Papers people have found ==
* [http://www.educause.edu/library/EQM09212 Challenges in Setting up Cross-Institutional Virtual Campuses] - Educause Quaterly, Vol. 32(2), 2009. Written by [[Pierre-Yves Burgi]]
* [http://www.cet.uct.ac.za/projects#PHEA PHEA Educational Technology Initiative] - Reports on ICTs in Higher Education in: Egypt , Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda. Obtained by [[Paul Bacsich]]
* [http://www.cairn.info/revue-distances-et-savoirs-2006-1-p-23.htm L’université virtuelle britannique / The British Virtual University] (FR but with English summary). Found by [[Paul Bacsich]]
* [http://www.fondazionecrui.it/elue/E-LUE%202006%20ingl.pdf University towards e-learning: a focus on Finland, France and Italy]: The ELUE project (E-Learning and University Education)'s aim is to photograph the diffusion of e-learning in the university world in Finland, France and Italy. This volume presents the results of a joint survey carried out by the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI), the Conference des Presidents d’Université Française (CPU), and the Finnish Virtual University (FVU) on the universities of their respective countries. PDF, 149 pages. Found by [[Widad Benhabiles]].

* [http://www.fondazionecrui.it/elue/documents.htm A Comparison of the National Reports of the First Stage], by the ELUE project (E-Learning and University Education). Found by [[Widad Benhabiles]].

* [[Image:Karran_TandPohjonen_J2000a.pdf]]: Responding to the Vision of the Information Society: First Steps Towards a National Virtual University. A Policy Discussion Paper by [[Terence Karran]] and Juha Pohjonen, Finland, 2005 (PDF, 124 pages, English) ISBN 951-42-5587-9 - suggested by Terence Karran

* [[Image:Mexico_ANUIESPlan2001.pdf]]: Masterplan of Higher Education: Open and Distance Education. Development strategy], Mexico, 2001 (PDF, 118 pages, in Spanish) - suggested by Terence Karran

* [[Image:Karran_eMexico_UNESCO2005.pdf]]: E-MEXICO - BUILDING ON SUCCESS, FOR SUCCESS, by Terence Karran, Mexico, 2005 (PDF, 4 pages, in English) - suggested by Terence Karran

* GLOBAL EDUCATION DIGEST 2006 Comparing Education Statistics Across the World - see http://www.estatisticas.gpeari.mctes.pt/archive/doc/globaleducationdigest2006unesco.pdf - found by Paul on 08/08/08

* The eLearning industry and market in Europe - Lot 1: Appendix to Synthesis Report by Jane Massy - see http://ec.europa.eu/education/archive/elearning/doc/studies/market_annex1a_en.pdf - found by Paul on 12/08/08

* THE USE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION AND INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHER EDUCATION: TRENDS, POLICY AND STRATEGY CONSIDERATIONS - see http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001334/133486e.pdf - found by Paul on 12/08/08

* Quality in E-Learning" report (91 pages) - see http://www.hsv.se/download/18.8f0e4c9119e2b4a60c800028057/0811R.pdf - found by Paul's friends around 10/09/08

* UKeU and Sweden's Net University - a Comparative Study by Michael Christie, Chalmers, and Ramon Garrote Jurado, University College of Borås. See: http://www.nshu.se/english/download/7496/ukeu_and_swedens_net_university_2007_mchristie_rgarrote.pdf. Found by Ulla 22/09/08.

* The Fostering of Innovative Elearning Strategies in European Higher Education, by James Aczel, [[Pascale Hardy]] et al (2006). From the InnoUniLearning project. See http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/document.cfm?docid=8515 for [http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/getfile.cfm?documentfileid=9533 Word] and [http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/getfile.cfm?documentfileid=9534 PowerPoint] versions. '''Well worth reading as background to our work'''. Added by Paul 23/10/08.

* Identifying Innovation in Higher Education eLearning Strategies by James Aczel, [[Pascale Hardy]], Olivier Cotinat, Helen Iggulden, László Komáromi, Katherine Maillet, Sara Medina, Andreas Meiszner, Eva Obermueller, Mark Spinoglio, Karen Staniland (2006). From the InnoUniLearning project. See http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/document.cfm?docid=8940 for the abstract of the [http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/getfile.cfm?documentfileid=10170 PDF file]. Added by Paul 23/10/08 (Rather similar to the previous paper.)

* [http://www.emdel.org/docs/Emdel_rapport_web.pdf “Emdel: a Model for Valorization of eLearning in a Knowledge Society” (PDF)], 138 pages, 2005, edited by Ellen Gard added by Nikki 26/11/2008

* [http://ec.europa.eu/education/archive/elearning/doc/studies/virtual_annex_f_en.pdf Studies in the Context of the e-learning Initiative: Virtual Models for European Universities (lot 1)(PDF)], 200 pages, 2003,Final Report to the EU Commission, DG Education & Culture, Annex F '''Country profiles''' added by Nikki 26/11/2008

* [[http://www.elearningeuropa.info/extras/pdf/virtual_models.pdf Studies in the Context of the e-learning Initiative: Virtual Models for European Universities ]](], 228 pages, 2004,Final Report to the EU Commission, DG Education & Culture, Annex F '''Country profiles''' added by Bieke

* [[http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/elearning/doc/studies/market_annex1_en.pdf The eLearning industry and market
in Europe]] added by Bieke on 05/01/2009

== Research on the use of ICT in education in developing countries ==

*[[infoDEV]] Information for development program publications about the use of ICT in education in Africa and the Carribean are availabe at: http://www.infodev.org/en/TopicPublications.4.html

*[[UNESCO Bangkok]], has a very elaborated website on the use of ICT in education. YOu can search per theme. http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/. They also have a special focus on the use of ICT in hiegher education. http://www.unescobkk.org/en/education/ict/ict-in-education-projects/higher-education/ We also refer to the metasurvey on the use of ICT in education in Asia and the Pacific : http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ict/e-books/metasurvey/metasurvey.pdf

*[[UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education]] One of the themes was ICT in education and the opportunities ICT provide to strive to reach education for all. The background report focuses particularly on the implications of ICTs for developing countries and is avialble at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001832/183207e.pdf

* The business of higher education: a study of public-private partnerships in South Africa Door Mahlubi Mabizela

== Interesting Networks ==

* [[BALTECH]] & the [[Baltic Sea University of Science and Technology]]
* [[Baltic Sea Network]]
* [[Coimbra Group]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EADTU]] - [[Netherlands]]
* [[EDEN]] - [[UK]]
* [[Edineb]] - [[Netherlands]]
* [[EUNITE]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EURASHE]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EuroPACE ivzw]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EUA]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[JISC]] - [[United Kingdom]]
* [[LERU]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[MENON]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[SEFI]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[SPACE]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[SURF]] - [[Netherlands]]
* [[USDLA]] - [[USA]]

== European Research projects on Virtual Campuses and Virtual Mobility ==
# [[MegaTrends]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Agency for Easy Access to Virtual Campus]] ([[E.A.S.Y.]])
# [[Modelling Advice and Support Services to Integrate Virtual Component in Higher Education]] ([[MASSIVE]])
# [[REal Virtual Erasmus]] ([[REVE]])
# [[Virtual and E-mobility for Networking Universities in Society]] ([[VENUS]])
# [[Analysing and Reporting the Implementation of Electronic Learning in Europe]] ([[ARIEL]])
# [[An Operational Conception of Virtual Mobility]] ([[E-move]])
# [[Collaborative European Virtual University]] ([[cEVU]])
# [[Developing a European e-learning Observation System]] ([[DELOS]])
# [[European Mobility through Virtual Education]] ([[EUROMOVE]])
# [[European Observatory of Emergent e-Learning]] ([[DELPHI]])
# [[Learning in a Virtual Integrated University]] ([[LIVIUS]])
# [[Learning Interoperability Framework for Europe]] ([[LIFE]])
# [[Mobility, Assessment, Selection, Technology and E-Learning Research]] ([[MASTER]])
# [[Model for a European Networked University for e-Learning]] ([[MENU]])
# [[Citizen E]]
# [[Eenovate]]
# [[Economic filtering of knowledge]] ([[FILTER]])
# [[European Small and medium entreprise E-learning Network]] ([[ESEN]])
# [[Horizontal E-Learning Integrated Observation System]] ([[HELIOS]])
# [[InnoUniLearning]]
# [[Observatory on Rights Management for e-Learning in Europe]] ([[OrmeE]]), a.k.a. [[e-copyright]]
# [[Open e-Learning Content Observatory Services]] ([[OLCOS]])
# [[Reti Sociali e Promozione Della Costruzione di Conoscenze in Contesti Elearning]]
# [[Unive]]
# [[VIrtual Curricula ThrOugh Reliable InterOperating University Systems]] ([[VICTORIOUS]])
# [[FLOSSCom]]
# [[Improving Continuing Education and Training through e-learning]] ([[ICETEL]])
# [[Systematization, Valorisation and Dissemination of e-Learning]]
# [[Enhancing Virtual Mobility to foster institutional cooperation and internationalisation of curricula]] ([[Movinter]])

== European research projects on Quality in eLearning ==
# [[E-xcellence - creating a standard of excellence for e-learning]]
# [[E-quality in e-learning research Laboratoire]] ([[EQUEL]]
# [[European Quality Observatory]] ([[EQO]])
# [[European Research Network for ICT in Schools of Tomorrow]] ([[eRNIST]])
# [[Quality Assessment of Digital Educational Materials]] ([[QUADEM]])
# [[Framework for e-learning Contents Evaluation]] ([[Fe-ConE]])
# [[Improving quality of e-learning in universities]] ([[ELUE]])
# [[La qualité de l'eLearning]] ([[QUAL-E-LEARNING]])
# [[Supporting Excellence in eLearning]] ([[SEEL]])
# [[Sustainable Environment for the Evaluation of Quality in eLearning]] ([[SEEQUEL]])
# [[TRIANGLE]]
# [[European University Quality in eLearning]] ([[UNIQUe]])

== Virtual Community for teachers and trainers ==
# [[A European Lifelong Learning System on ICT in Education for Pioneer Teachers]] ([[ULEARN]])
# [[BAZAAR]]
# [[e-Learning Network for Teacher Training]] ([[eLene-TT]])
# [[eTTnet]]
# [[Training of trainers network for e-learning]] ([[e-Ttnet]])
# [[English for Specific Purposes: Therapeutic Professions]] ([[ESP-T]])
# [[SSIS Veneto]] ([[SSIS]])

== Interesting Networks ==

* [[BALTECH]] & the [[Baltic Sea University of Science and Technology]]
* [[Baltic Sea Network]]
* [[Coimbra Group]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EADTU]] - [[Netherlands]]
* [[EDEN]] - [[UK]]
* [[Edineb]] - [[Netherlands]]
* [[EUNITE]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EURASHE]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EuroPACE ivzw]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[EUA]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[JISC]] - [[United Kingdom]]
* [[LERU]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[MENON]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[SEFI]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[SPACE]] - [[Belgium]]
* [[SURF]] - [[Netherlands]]
* [[USDLA]] - [[USA]]

== Other Resources ==
* [[E-learning Progress at Ain-Shams University]], The [[Mediterranean Virtual University]] Project: a list of virtual universities per region.

* [[Bibliography_of_benchmarking]]
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Programmes

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''The following list includes the lists of institutions which [[The e-University Compendium]] and the UNESCO [http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/linksliste.php IIEP List] feel are worthy of consideration as virtual universities. In the next phase, we have also included many of the accredited open universities around the world, and virtual elearning initiatives mentioned in other research projects or relevant sources of information.'' You can have a look at our [[original list of programmes.]] For various sources of information please check our [[Publications]] Page

We present the interesting programmes here as European versus Rest of The World. We appreciate that reaching a common agreement as to what constitutes ‘Europe’ is quite a complex task and one which reaches beyond the boundaries of a European Project like Re.ViCa. We have therefore taken the decision as a project team to use a definition of Europe that fits between a narrow definition of Europe as being made up of the 27 member states of the European Union and the broader geographic definition of Europe. We define Europe for the purposes of our work in Re.ViCa as including the countries of the EU, EEA and Switzerland. This means that the ‘Rest of the World’ refers to all countries which do not fall within this definition of Europe. Each Notable e-Learning Initiative is categorized and you can find per entry, to what category they belong. If you click on the category, you can find all other initiatives that belong to that category. You can find for example all "private providers" or "national initiatives".

== European (in the sense of EU, EEA and Switzerland) ==
# [[Aalborg University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Aarhus University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Academy of Performing Arts in Prague]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie]], [[AUF]], [[Canada]]
# [[AKAD Privat-Hochschulen]], [[Germany]]
# [[Apertus Foundation]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]]
# [[Athens University of Economics and Business]], [[Greece]]
# [[Bavarian Virtual University]] ([[Virtuelle Universität Bayern]]), [[Germany]]
# [[BI Norwegian School of Management]], [[Norway]]
# [[Budapest University of Technology and Economics]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Bulgarian Virtual University]] ([[BVU]]), [[Bulgaria]]
# [[Business Academy West]], [[Denmark]]
# [[CAmpus Numerique en Economie-GEstion]] ([[CANEGE]]), [[France]]
# [[Campus Numériques Français ]], [[France]]
# [[Canal U]], [[France]]
# [[Central European University]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance]] ([[CNED]]), [[France]]
# [[Centro estudios financieros]], [[Spain]]
# [[Clyde Virtual University]] ([[CVU]]), [[Scotland]] - [[UK]]
# [[College of European and Regional Studies]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[College of Nursing and Midwifery]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers]], [[France]]
# [[Copenhagen University College of Engineering]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Czech Technical University in Prague]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[Danish Virtual University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Dennis Gabor Applied University]] ([[DGAU]]), [[Hungary]]
# [[Distance and International Study Center]] ([[DISC]]), TU Kaiserslautern, [[Germany]]
# [[Distance Education Study Centre]] ([[DESC]]), [[Latvia]]
# [[Dublin City University]], [[Ireland]]
# [[Dutch Digital University]], ([[DDU]]), [[Netherlands]]
# [[E-Campus Telematic University]], [[Italy]]
# [[Engineering College of Aarhus]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Eötvös Lóránt University]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Erasmus University College Brussels]], ([[EhB]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Estonian Business School Open University]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian e-Learning Development Centre]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian e-University]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian e-Vocational School]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Estonian IT College]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Eszterházy Károly College]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Europäische Fernhochschule Hamburg]] [[Germany]]
# [[European University Viadrina]], [[Germany]]
# [[Fédération Interuniversitaire de l'Enseignement à Distance]] ([[FIED]]), [[France]]
# [[Fernfachhochschule Schweiz]], [[Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences]], [[FFHS]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[FernUniversität Hagen]], [[Germany]]
# [[Finnish Online University of Applied Sciences]], [[VirtuaaliAMK]], [[Finland]]
# [[Finnish Virtual University]], [[FVU]], [[Finland]]
# [[The Foundation Fernstudien Schweiz]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[Ghent University Association]] ([[AUGent]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Ghent University]] ([[UGent]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Global Virtual University]] - and see in particular [[University of Agder]], [[Norway]]
# [[Gotland University]], [[Sweden]]
# [[Guglielmo Marconi Telematic University]], [[Italy]]
# [[Hamburger Fernhochschule]] [[Germany]]
# [[Hellenic Open University]] ([[HOU]]), [[Greece]]
# [[Henley Management College]], [[England]]
# [[Hibernia College]], [[Ireland]]
# [[Hochschulverbund Virtuelle Fachhochschule]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[Instituto de formación de postgrado]], [[Spain]]
# [[Interactive University]], [[Scotland]] - [[UK]]
# [[Intercultural Open University]], the [[Netherlands]]
# [[International Business Academy]] ([[IBA]]), [[Denmark]]
# [[International Telematic University UNINETTUNO]], [[Italy]]
# [[International University of Andalusia]], [[Spain]]
# [[IT University West]], [[Denmark]]
# [[IT-University of Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Jutland University College]], [[Denmark]]
# [[KHiS]], [[Sweden]]
# [[Klagenfurt University]], [[Austria]]
# [[KTH Royal Institute of Technology]], [[Sweden]]
# [[learndirect]], [[UK]]
# [[Leidse Onderwijsinstellingen]], [[LOI]], [[Netherlands]]
# [[Lithuanian Virtual University]], [[Lithuania]]
# [[Lübeck University of Applied Sciences]], [[Germany]]
# [[Lund University]] NetUniversity, [[Sweden]]
# [[Mediterranean Network of Universities]], [[Italy]]
# [[METID-Politecnico di Milano]], [[Italy]]
# [[Middlesex University]] Global Campus, [[UK]]
# [[Mid Sweden University]]
# [[MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences]], [[Hungary]]
# [[National College for School Leadership]] ([[NCSL]]) of the [[UK]]
# [[NBPortal.pl]], [[Poland]]
# [[NETTUNO]], [[Italy]]
# [[Networked University]], [[Norway]] - the same as the [[Norwegian Networked University]]
# [[NewMine Lab]], New Media in Education Laboratory at the Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, [[CH]]
# [[NHSU]], the ''National Health Service University'', [[UK]]
# [[NKI Internet College]], [[Norway]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[NKS Nettstudier]], [[Norway]]
# [[Norway Opening Universities]] ([[NOU]]) - an agency - [[Norway]]
# [[Norwegian Networked University]] ([[NVU]]) - a universities association - [[Norway]]
# [[oncampus]], [[Germany]]
# [[Open Estonia Foundation]], [[OEF]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Open Universiteit Nederland]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Open University of Cyprus]] (OUC), [[Cyprus]]
# [[Open University]] of the [[United Kingdom]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[OSCAIL]], [[Ireland]]
# [[Pandeion University for Social and Political Sciences]], [[Greece]]
# [[Pegaso Telematic University]], [[Italy]]
# [[Peoples Open Access Educational Initiative]] ([[Peoples-uni]]), [[UK]]
# [[Polish Virtual University]], [[PUW]], [[Poland]]
# [[Robert Gordon University]], [[Scotland]]
# [[Roskilde University]], [[Denmark]]
# [[Scottish Knowledge]], [[UK]]
# [[Scuola IaD]], [[Italy]]
# [[Sheffield Hallam University]], [[UK]]
# [[Silesian University of Technology]], [[Poland]]
# [[Sør-Trøndelag University College]], [[Norway]]
# [[SPACE]], [[Belgium]]
# [[Staffordshire University]], [[UK]]
# [[Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava‎]], [[Romania]]
# [[Sulinet Digital Knowledge Base]], [[SDT]] [[Hungary]]
# [[Swedish Net University]], [[Sweden]]
# [[Swiss Virtual Campus]], [[Switzerland]]
# [[SZÁMALK Education and Information Technology Ltd.]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Tallinn University]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Tallinn University of Technology]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Technical University of Graz]], [[Austria]]
# [[The Global university system]], [[Finland]]
# [[The National & Kapodistrian University of Athens]], [[Greece]]
# [[Tiger Leap Foundation]], [[TLF]], [[Estonia]]
# [[Tiger University Program]], [[Estonia]]
# [[UHI Millennium Institute]], [[Scotland]] - [[UK]]
# [[UKeU]], [[UK]]
# [[Universidad a distancia de Madrid]], [[Spain]]
# [[Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia]] ([[UNED]]), [[Spain]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Universidade Aberta]], [[Uab]], [[Portugal]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Universidade Católica Portuguesa]], [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidade de Aveiro]], [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidade do Minho]], [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidade do Porto]] ([[UP]]), [[Portugal]]
# [[Universidad Politécnica de Madrid]] ([[UPM]]), [[Spain]]
# [[Universitat Oberta de Catalunya]], [[Catalonia]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[Université Virtuelle en Pays de la Loire ]], [[France]]
# [[Université Virtuelle Francophone]] ([[Virtual Francophone University]]), [[France]]
# [[Universités numériques en région]] ([[UNR]]), [[France]]
# [[Universités Numériques Thématiques]] ([[UNT]]), [[France]]
# [[University College Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College Lillebaelt]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College of Northern Denmark]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College Sealand]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University College South]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University of the Aegean]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Agder]], [[Norway]]
# [[University of Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University of Gavle]], [[Sweden]]
# [[University of Granada]], [[Spain]]
# [[University of Hradec Kralove]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[University of Ioannina]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria]], [[Canary Islands]], [[Spain]]
# [[University of Liverpool]] Online Education [[UK]]
# [[University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Miskolc]], [[Hungary]]
# [[University of Oslo]], [[Norway]]
# [[University of Piraeus]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering]], [[FEUP]], [[Portugal]]
# [[University of Southern Denmark]], [[Denmark]]
# [[University of Tartu]], [[Estonia]]
# [[University of Thessaly]], [[Greece]]
# [[University of the West of Scotland]], [[UK]]
# [[University of Ulster]] Campus One, [[Northern Ireland]], [[UK]] - a [[Megaprovider]]
# [[University of Urbino "Carlo Bo"]], [[Italy]]
# [[University of West Hungary]], [[Hungary]]
# [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]] ([[VUB]]), [[Belgium]]
# [[Warsaw University Centre for Open and Multimedia Education]] ([[COME]] ), [[Poland]]
# [[Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule]], [[Germany]]
# [[Zentralstelle für Fernstudien an Fachhochschulen]] ([[ZFH]]), [[Germany]]

=== Virtual Campuses (VC) supported by the European Commission ===

==== Running projects (until end of 2009)====
# [[E-learning in Distributed Data Network Laboratory]] ([[EdiNet]])
# [[European Teachers and Trainers campus]] ([[eTT.Campus]])
# [[History On Line]]
# [[OIKODOMOS: a virtual campus to promote the study of dwelling in contemporary Europe]]
# [[Virtual Campus for A Sustainable Europe]] ([[VCSE]])
# [[Virtual Campus for Digital Students]] ([[ViCaDiS]])
# [[Virtual Campus for SMEs in a Multicultural Milieu]]
# [[Virtual Campus on Post-master Studies in Architecture]] ([[e-archidoct]])
# [[Web-based health Organisations Learning Environment]] ([[WHOLE]])

==== Ceased activities ====
# [[European Master in Comparative Urban Studies]] ([[e-URBs]])

==== Virtual Campus beyond EU Funding ====
# [[European Virtual Campus for Biomedical Engineering]] ([[EVICAB]]):The project was funded by the European Commission for two years from 1.1.2006 till 31.12.2007. At present the funding id provided by other sources.
# [[League of European Research Universities virtual campus]] ([[e-LERU]])
# [[Law & ICT Shared Virtual Campus]] ([[LAW&ICT]])

==== Ceased? ====
# [[Bio-eTrain]]
# [[Multiple intelligences instructional design framework for virtual classes]]
# [[Reuse and Sharing of e-Learning Courses in GI Science Education]] ([[eduGI]])
# [[VIrtual campus for virtual space design Provided for european Architects]] ([[VIPA]])
# [[New e-learning Environment for European SME's Employees]] ([[CREATEL]])
# [[Virtual COPERNICUS-CAMPUS]]
# [[Virtual European Banking School]] ([[VEBS]])
# [[ICT Platform for Online Learning and Experiences Accreditation in the Mobility Programme]] ([[PLATO]])
# [[Erasmus Virtual Economics & Management Studies Exchange]] ([[EVENE]])

== Rest of the World ==

''Note that a few of these initiatives have ceased or merged by 2009.''

# [[Abilene Christian University]], [[US]]
# [[Africa University Virtual Classroom]], [[Zimbabwe]]
# [[African Virtual University]] ([[AVU]])
# [[Al-Balqa' Applied University]], [[Jordan]]
# [[Allama Iqbal Open University]] ([[AIOU]]), [[Pakistan]]
# [[Al-Madinah International University]] ([[MEDIU]]), [[Malaysia]]
# [[Almaty Technological University]], [[Kazakhstan]]
# [[Al-Quds Open University]], [[Palestine]]
# [[Al-Quds University]], [[Palestine]]
# [[American InterContinental University]] ([[AIU]]), [[US]]
# [[Amur State University]], [[Russia]]
# [[Anadolu University]], [[Turkey]]
# [[Andrew Jackson University‎]], [[US]]
# [[Anna Maria College]], [[US]]
# [[Arab American University for Distance Learning]], [[Jordan]]
# [[Arab Open University]] ([[AOU]])
# [[Arizona Universities Network]] ([[AZUN]]), [[United States]]
# [[ASEAN Virtual University]]
# [[Ashworth College]], [[US]]
# [[Ashford University]], [[US]]
# [[Asia International Open University]] (AIOU), [[Macao]]
# [[Assumption University]], [[Thailand]]
# [[Athabasca University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Auckland University of Technology]] ([[AUT]]), [[New Zealand]]
# [[Australian Catholic University]]
# [[Australian National University]]
# [[Bangalore University]], [[India]]
# [[Bangladesh Open University]] ([[BOU]])
# [[Bankit University Teledukasi‎]], [[Indonesia]]
# [[BCcampus]], [[Canada]]
# [[Beijing Foreign Studies University]] ([[BFSU]]), [[China]]
# [[Beijing Normal University]] ([[BNU]]), [[China]]
# [[Beijing Radio & TV University]] ([[BTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Beirut University Online]], [[Lebanon]]
# [[Best Virtual Universities Organisation]]
# [[Big 12 Engineering Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia‎]], [[US]]
# [[British Columbia Open University]] ([[BCOU]]), [[Canada]]
# [[California Virtual Campus]] ([[CVC]]), [[US]]
# [[California Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[Campus Numerique Francophone de Dakar]], [[Senegal]]
# [[Campus Saskatchewan‎]], [[Canada]]
# [[Campus Virtual de Salud Publica]] - an international initiative
# [[Canadian Virtual University]] ([[CVU]])
# [[CAP College]], [[Philippines]]
# [[Capella University]], [[US]]
# [[Cardean University]], [[US]]
# [[Carleton University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Carnegie Mellon University]], [[US]]
# [[Cederj]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Charles Sturt University]] ([[CSU]]), [[Australia]]
# [[Charter Oak State College‎]], [[US]]
# [[China Central Radio & TV University]] ([[CCRTVU]])
# [[Chinhoyi University of Technology]], [[Zimbabwe]]
# [[Coastline Community College‎]], [[US]]
# [[Colorado University Online]], [[US]]
# [[Colorado Community Colleges Online]], [[US]]
# [[Colorado Technical University‎]], [[US]]
# [[Columbia Southern University]], [[US]]
# [[Community College System of New Hampshire]] ([[CCSNH]]), [[US]]
# [[Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[Corinthian Colleges]], [[US]]
# [[Curtin University of Technology]], [[Australia]]
# [[CVA-RICESU]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Cyber U]], [[United States]]
# [[Cyber University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Daegu Cyber University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Deakin University]], [[Australia]]
# [[DePaul University]], [[US]]
# [[DeVry University]], [[US]]
# [[Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University]] ([[BRAOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University]], [[India]]
# [[Drexel University Online]], [[US]]
# [[Duke University]], [[US]]
# [[Dunia Moja]],[[South Africa]]
# [[DUOC UC]], [[Chile]]
# [[Early Childhood Development Virtual University]] ([[ECDVU]]), [[Canada]]
# [[e-Berkeley]], [[US]]
# [[eCampus Alberta]], [[Canada]]
# [[eChina]] e-learning collaboration between [[UK]] and [[China]]
# [[ECOESAD]], [[Mexico]]
# [[e-Cornell]], [[US]]
# [[Edith Cowan University]], [[Australia]]
# [[Egyptian E-Learning University]]
# [[e-Learnz]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Electronic University Consortium of South Dakota]], [[US]]
# [[Empire State College]], [[US]]
# [[e-TQM College]], [[Dubai]] - see [[Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University]]
# [[Euclid University]] - an international initiative
# [[Ewha Womans University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Faculdade Pitágoras]], [[Brazil]]
# [[FATECE]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Fathom.com]], [[US]]
# [[FGV Online]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Fisheries College, Bac Ninh]] ([[FC]]), [[Vietnam]]
# [[Florida Community College]], [[US]]
# [[Full Sail University]], [[US]]
# [[FUNIBER Virtual Campus]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Gama Virtual Campus UGF]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Georgia G.L.O.B.E.]], [[US]]
# [[Georgia Virtual Technical College]], [[US]]
# [[Global University Alliance]] - several meanings
# [[Great Plains IDEA]], [[US]]
# [[Hanoi Open University]], [[Vietnam]]
# [[Hanyang Cyber University]] ([[HYCU]]), [[Korea]]
# [[Harvard University Extension School]], [[US]]
# [[Hashemite University]], [[Jordan]]
# [[Health Sciences University of Mongolia]]
# [[Henan Radio & TV University]] ([[HNRTVU]])
# [[Ho Chi Minh City Open University]] ([[HCMCOU]]), [[Vietnam]]
# [[Hong Kong Polytechnic University]] Cyber U
# [[Hong Kong Virtual University]]
# [[ictQATAR]], [[Qatar]]
# [[Idaho Electronic Campus]], [[US]]
# [[Illinois Community Colleges Online‎]], [[US]]
# [[Illinois Virtual Campus]], [[US]]
# [[Independent Study in Idaho]], [[US]]
# [[Indian Institutes of Technology]] ([[IITs]]), [[India]]
# [[Indiana University Online]], [[US]]
# [[Indira Gandhi National Open University]], [[India]]
# [[Inner Mongolia Radio & TV University]] ([[IMRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Institute of Information Technology]] ([[Vietnam]])
# [[Institute of Distance and Continuing Education]], [[Guyana]] (in South America)
# [[International Cyber University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Iowa Community College Online Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[Iranian Virtual University]], [[Iran]]
# [[Isfehan Virtual University]] ([[Iran]])
# [[Ivy Tech Community College]] ([[US]])
# [[Jiangsu Radio & TV University]] ([[JSRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Jones International University]], [[US]]
# [[K. K. Handique State University]], [[India]]
# [[Kaplan College]], [[US]]
# [[Karnataka State Open University]] ([[KSOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Keio University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Keller Graduate School of Management]], [[US]]
# [[Kentucky Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[Kenyatta University]], [[Kenya]]
# [[Knowledge International University]], [[Saudi Arabia]]
# [[Korea National Open University]] ([[KNOU]])
# [[Korea Virtual Campus]]
# [[Kota Open University]], [[India]] - see [[Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University]]
# [[Kuban Institute of International Business and Management]], [[Russia]]
# [[Lakehead University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Lansbridge University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Laureate Education]], [[US]]
# [[Laurentian University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Lehigh University]], [[US]]
# [[Louisiana Board of Regents]], [[US]]
# [[Mackenzie Presbyterian University]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University]] ([[MPBOU]]), [[India]]
# [[MarylandOnline‎]], [[US]]
# [[Massachusetts Colleges Online]] ([[MCO]]), [[US]]
# [[Massey University]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Mediterranean Virtual University]] - international consortium
# [[Michigan State University]], [[US]]
# [[Michigan Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[Minnesota Online‎]], [[US]]
# [[MIT]], [[US]]
# [[Modern University of the Humanities]], [[Russia]]
# [[Montana University System‎]], [[US]]
# [[Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics]] ([[MESI]]), [[Russia]]
# [[Mount Royal College]], [[Canada]]
# [[Multimedia University]], [[Malaysia]]
# [[Nalanda Open University]], [[India]]
# [[Nanyang Technological University]], [[Singapore]]
# [[National Universities Degree Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[National Open University of Nigeria]]
# [[National Open University]], [[Taiwan]]
# [[National Science and Technology Program for e-Learning in Taiwan]]
# [[National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning]] ([[NPTEL]]), [[India]]
# [[National University of Science and Technology]] ([[NUST]]), [[Zimbabwe]]
# [[National University of Singapore]]
# [[Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University]] ([[NMMU]]), [[South Africa]]
# [[Netaji Subhas Open University]] ([[NSOU]]), [[India]]
# [[NetVarsity]], [[India]]
# [[New Jersey Virtual University]], [[US]]
# [[NextEd]]
# [[NJEDGE.net]], [[US]]
# [[Northcentral University]], [[US]]
# [[North Dakota University System Online‎]] ([[NDUSO]]), [[US]]
# [[North-West University]] ([[NWU]]), [[South Africa]]
# [[Nova Southeastern University]], [[US]]
# [[Ohio Learning Network‎]] ([[OLN]]), [[US]]
# [[Ohio University Without Boundaries]] ([[OUWB]]), [[US]]
# [[Old Dominion University]], [[US]]
# [[Online CSU]], [[US]]
# [[Online University Consortium]] ([[OUC]]), [[US]]
# [[Open Learning Agency]] ([[OLA]]), [[Canada]]
# [[Open Polytechnic of New Zealand]]
# [[Open Training and Education Network]] ([[OTEN]]), [[Australia]]
# [[Open Universities Australia]] - formerly Open Learning Australia
# [[Open University for Adults]] ([[UAPA]]), [[Dominican Republic]]
# Open University of Brazil - see [[Universidade Aberta do Brasil]]
# [[Open University of China]]
# [[Open University of Hong Kong]] ([[OUHK]])
# [[Open University of Israel]] ([[OUI]])
# [[Open University of Japan]] ([[OUJ]])
# [[Open University of Libya]]
# [[Open University of Malaysia]]
# [[Open University of Sri Lanka]] ([[OUSL]])
# [[Open University of Sudan]] ([[OUS]])
# [[Open University of Tanzania]] ([[OUT]])
# [[Oregon Community Colleges Distance Learning‎]] ([[OCCDL]]), [[US]]
# [[Oregon Network for Education‎]] (ONE), [[US]]
# [[Orenburg State University‎]], [[Russia]]
# [[Otago University]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Pakistan Virtual University]]
# [[Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila Open University]], [[Philippines]]
# [[Park University]], [[US]]
# [[Payame Noor University]] ([[PNU]]), [[Iran]]
# [[Peer 2 Peer University]] ([[P2PU]]), [[US]]
# [[Penn State World Campus]], [[US]]
# [[Phnom Penh International University]], [[Cambodia]]
# [[Polivirtual]], [[Mexico]]
# [[Polytechnic University of the Philippines Open University]] ([[PUP-OU]]), [[Philippines]]
# [[Pt. Sunderlal Sharma Open University]] ([[PSSOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Punjab Technical University Virtual Campus]], [[India]]
# [[PurpleTrain.com]]
# [[Queen's University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Queensland University of Technology]] ([[QUT]]), [[Australia]]
# [[R1edu.org‎]], [[US]]
# [[Ramkhamhaeng University]], [[Thailand]]
# [[Regis University]], [[US]]
# [[Rey Juan Carlos University]] ([[URJC]]), [[Spain]]
# [[Rio Salado College]], [[US]]
# [[RMIT]], [[Australia]]
# [[Royal Roads University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Ryerson University]], [[Canada]]
# [[SAIDI School of OD]], [[Philippines]]
# [[Samtse College of Education]], [[Bhutan]]
# [[Savannah College of Art and Design]], [[US]]
# [[School of the Future]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Seoul Digital University]], [[South Korea]]
# [[Shaanxi Radio & TV University]] ([[SXRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Shanghai TV University]] ([[STVU]] or [[SHTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Shenyang Radio & TV University]] ([[SYTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Shinshu University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Shiraz Virtual University]], [[Iran]]
# [[Sichuan Radio & TV University]] ([[SRTVU]]) or ([[SCRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[SIM University]] [[(UniSIM)]], [[Singapore]]
# [[Simon Fraser University]] ([[SFU]]), [[Canada]]
# [[Sokoine University of Agriculture]], [[Tanzania]]
# [[Southeast University‎]], [[Bangladesh]]
# [[Southern California Consortium for Community College Television]], [[US]]
# [[Southern Cross University‎]], [[Australia]]
# [[Southern Institute of Technology]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Southern Regional Electronic Board]] ([[SREB]]), [[US]]
# [[St. Petersburg College]], [[US]]
# [[Stanford University]], [[US]]
# [[Strayer University Online]]
# [[Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University]] ([[STOU]]), [[Thailand]]
# [[Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University]], [[Thailand]]
# [[Syrian Virtual University]] ([[SVU]])
# [[TAFE Open Learning]], [[Australia]]
# [[Tamil Nadu Open University]] ([[TNOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Tamil Virtual University‎]], [[India]]
# [[TechBC]], [[Canada]]
# [[Technikon SA]], [[South Africa]]
# [[Tecnológico de Monterrey]], [[Mexico]]
# [[Tehran Virtual University]], [[Iran]]
# [[Tele-Universite de Quebec ]], [[Quebec]]
# [[Temple University]] Online Learning (OLL) Program, [[US]]
# [[The Global Open University of Zambia]] ([[TGOU]])
# [[The Nursing Education Xchange‎]], [[US]]
# [[Theological College of Zimbabwe]]
# [[Thompson Rivers University]], [[Canada]]
# [[Tianjin Radio & TV University]] ([[TJRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Tohoku University]], [[Japan]]
# [[Tshwane University of Technology]], [[South Africa]]
# [[Tsinghua University]], [[China]]
# [[U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open University]] ([[UPRTOU]]), [[India]]
# [[UC-Berkeley Extension]], [[US]]
# [[UMassOnline]], [[US]]
# [[UNIACC]], [[Chile]]
# [[UNIEDPA]], [[Panama]]
# [[UNISA Online Campus]], [[South Africa]]
# [[United Nations University Online Learning]]
# [[United States Open University]]
# [[Universal College of Learning]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Universidad de Guadalajara]] (UDGVirtual), [[Mexico]]
# [[Universidad Estatal a Distancia]], [[Costa Rica]]
# [[Universidad José Cecilio del Valle]], [[Honduras]]
# [[Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia]] ([[UNAD]]), [[Colombia]]
# [[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras]]
# [[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México]] ([[UNAM]])
# [[Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja]] ([[UTPL]]), [[Ecuador]]
# [[Universidad Virtual de Quilmes]], [[Argentina]]
# [[Universidad Virtual de Salud de Cuba]]
# [[Universidade de Brasilia Centro de Educação a Distância]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Universidade Virtual do Centro-Oeste]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Universidade Virtual Publica do Brasil]]
# [[Universitas 21 Global]], [[Singapore]]
# [[Universitas Terbuka]], [[Indonesia]]
# [[Universiti Sains Malaysia]]
# [[Universiti Teknologi MARA]], [[Malaysia]]
# [[Universiti Tun Abdul Razak]] ([[UNITAR]]), [[Malaysia]]
# [[University College University of Maine System‎]], [[US]]
# [[University of the Andes]], [[Colombia]]
# [[University of the Arctic]]
# [[University of Bahrain]]
# [[University of Baltimore]], [[US]]
# [[University of British Columbia]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of Cape Town]], [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Central Florida]], [[US]]
# [[University of Colombo School of Computing]] ([[UCSC]]), [[Sri Lanka]]
# [[University of Dar es Salaam]], [[Tanzania]]
# [[University of the Free State]] ([[UFS]]), [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Guelph Open Online]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of Hawaii System]], [[US]]
# [[University of Hong Kong]]
# [[University of Illinois Global Campus]], [[US]]
# [[University of Illinois Online]], [[US]]
# [[University of Illinois Springfield‎]] ([[UIS]]), [[US]]
# [[University of Kentucky]], [[US]]
# [[University of KwaZulu-Natal]], [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Maryland University College]] (UMUC), [[US]]
# [[University of New Brunswick]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of New England (US)]], [[US]] - unrelated to Australian UNE
# [[University of New England]], [[Australia]]
# [[University of Ostrava]], [[Czech Republic]]
# [[University of Ottawa]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of the People]]
# [[University of the Philippines Open University]]
# [[University of Phoenix Online]], [[US]]
# [[University of Pretoria]] (UP), [[South Africa]]
# [[University of Qatar]]
# [[University of Southern Maine]], [[US]]
# [[University of Southern Queensland]], [[Australia]]
# [[University of the South Pacific Online Learning]] ([[USP]])
# [[University of Sao Paulo]] (USP). [[Brazil]]
# [[University of Waikato Online Learning]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[University of Waterloo]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of the West Indies]]
# [[University of Western Ontario]], [[Canada]]
# [[University of Wisconsin Extension]], [[US]]
# [[University of Zambia]]
# [[Utah eLearning Connection‎]], [[US]]
# [[Utah Higher Education Consortium]], [[US]]
# [[UT Telecampus]], University of Texas System, [[US]]
# [[Uttaranchal Open University]], [[India]]
# [[UVB Campus]], [[Brazil]]
# [[Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University]] ([[VMOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Victoria University of Wellington]], [[New Zealand]]
# [[Virtual College of Texas‎]], [[US]]
# [[Virtual Global University]]
# [[Virtual University for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises]]
# [[Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth]]
# [[Virtual University for the Semi-Arid Tropics‎]], [[India]]
# [[Virtual University of Tunisia]]
# [[Walden University]], [[US]]
# [[Waseda University]], [[Japan]]
# [[WashingtonOnline‎]], [[US]]
# [[Wawasan Open University]], [[Malaysia]]
# [[Westwood College]], [[US]]
# [[Western Governors University]], [[US]]
# [[Wyoming Distance Education Consortium‎]] ([[WyDEC]]), [[US]]
# [[Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University]] ([[YCMOU]]), [[India]]
# [[Yunnan Radio & TV University]] ([[YRTVU]]), [[China]]
# [[Zambian Open University]] ([[ZAOU]])
# [[Zimbabwe Open University]] ([[ZOU]])

'''Also note the list of [[Suspect Providers]].'''

== Interesting Networks ==
# [[EADTU]], the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities
# [[EDEN]], a European Association of universities active in e-learning
# [[EuroPACE]], a European Association of universities active in e-learning
# [[Greek Schools Network]], [[Greece]]

See also [[Abbreviations]].
Other reports that provide good information on programmes to select for further consideration include:

* [http://www.nshu.se/english/page/4713/reports.htm Reports from Swedish Net Agency study trips]
* [[E-learning_Progress_at_Ain-Shams_University]] - a list of virtual universities by region
* [http://ec.europa.eu/education/archive/elearning/doc/studies/market_annex1a_en.pdf The eLearning industry and market in Europe - Lot 1: Appendix to Synthesis Report] by Jane Massy

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