Elika Virtual School

Established in 2007, this virtual school helps students of different ages, grades, skills and interested in different aspects of education, to improve or test their knowledge using creative learning and teaching methods based on tradition and interactive methods.

Elika Virtual School operates as a partner to mainstream schools, educational organisations, and other institutions working with or supporting children and adults with disabilities or special educational needs. The school aims to prevent young people from "dropping out of the community" by helping them become active citizens.

Through its work, Elika Virtual School also aims to encourage teachers, educational organisations and centres to evaluate and adopt better working models of teaching, training, integration and collaboration with marginalised students. The school breaks down this broad aim as follows:

1. To enable organisations;
2. To motivate behavioural changes by creating a transferable model which can be used in any situation where individuals and organisations have difficulties to overcome and where employee motivation for participation is low.
3. To develop a teacher training programme designed to increase students' communication and presentation skills
4. To develop, record and publish models for the use of presentations and e-portfolio as a stimulus for learning - made available in the form of a toolkit (handbook and cd) and an analysis report.

By monitoring the results in different countries the school applies best practice and stimulates learners to use their training to enhance their portfolio.