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FORWARD INTO 2015

This wiki is the largest professional wiki in the world devoted to virtual learning in education - at all levels (schools, colleges and universities) including informal learning, open learning/OER and distance learning.

Welcome to the entry page of this wiki where you will find information about virtual schools, colleges and universities. The idea behind this wiki is to create an open and public space where researchers can share information about virtual developments in various different educational sectors. It is supported and maintained by a growing community of researchers and is aimed at stakeholders, researchers and practitioners who would like to have easy access to the latest information about how the virtual phenomenon is manifesting itself in schools, colleges and universities around the world.

In 2015 it is expected that there will be much closer integration of the material on this wiki with that on the POERUP wiki http://poerup.referata.com - which as far as feasible uses the same approach and naming scheme for its focus on OER and MOOCs.

26 January 2015 - updates to Chile and related entries

New entry for Docentes On Line and updates for the Chile country report and Think Academy International Virtual School, by Michel Morales

9 July 2015 - updates to Armenia and Georgia

Key links

Funding

Funding to launch this wiki has come mainly from the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission through projects relevant to virtual learning. In addition, a series of smaller initiatives and volunteer labour have aimed and continue to keep updating the material. (See in particular e-World and LUOERL.)

This wiki is currently maintained by the Exploitation Phase of the VISCED project on Virtual Schools and Colleges (funded by LLP in 2011 - 2012), which made an inventory and carried out a systematic review at international and national levels of innovative ICT-enhanced learning/teaching "Exemplar" initiatives and "e-mature" major secondary and post-secondary education providers for the 14-21 age group. For more details see http://www.virtualschoolsandcolleges.info/

VISCED enhanced Re.ViCa's earlier research work on this wiki on country reports and resources with research results relevant to virtual schools and exemplars.

Disclaimer

The Editorial Team makes every effort to ensure, but does not guarantee, the accuracy of the information on this wiki, but we warmly invite anyone who sees incorrect information to register and correct the page yourself within the wiki spirit. You can read more information on this topic here.

This wiki has been partly funded through the Re.ViCa project (2007-2009), then through the VISCED project (2011-2012), and currently though the POERUP project (2011-2014) with support from the European Commission through the Lifelong Learning Programme. The wiki reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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Do you know an interesting Virtual Campus, Virtual College or Virtual School? Do you want to provide information about blended and e-learning in your country? We warmly welcome your input, so join the research team by registering here for free and help us to grow this wiki as a large and dynamic inventory of Virtual Learning!

Before you start editing, please read our short list of Guidelines and visit our Wiki Editing Tutorial. Experts should also check out Collating sequence.

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-'''''THIS WIKI IS NOW FROZEN - NEW EDITORS WILL NOT BE APPROVED BUT EXISTING EDITORS CAN EDIT - ALTHOUGH THEIR EDITS WILL NOT BE TRANSFERRED TO THE ACTIVE SITE UNLESS THEY TAG THEM APPROPRIATELY (see News Item below)'''''
+== ''FORWARD INTO 2015'' ==
-'''For the active site, see http://virtual-learning.referata.com which aims to hold an exact copy of this site. At present we believe that all content pages have been transferred but many files of images and diagrams are still in process of migration. At present users are welcome to browse it, and we appreciate any feedback'''
-''This wiki will continue to accrete a few updates from the core team  - especially reports. If we detect any users editing we shall do our best to check the edits in a way which means that we can do another  transfer in  December 2017.''
+'''''This wiki is the largest professional wiki in the world devoted to virtual learning in education - at all levels (schools, colleges and universities) including informal learning, open learning/OER and distance learning.'''''
-'''Paul Bacsich 3 October 2017'''
+Welcome to the entry page of this wiki where you will find information about virtual schools, colleges and universities. The idea behind this wiki is to create an open and public space where researchers can share information about virtual developments in various different educational sectors. It is supported and maintained by a growing community of researchers and is aimed at stakeholders, researchers and practitioners who would like to have easy access to the latest information about how the virtual phenomenon is manifesting itself in schools, colleges and universities around the world.
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+''In 2015 it is expected that there will be much closer integration of the material on this wiki with that on the POERUP wiki http://poerup.referata.com - which as far as feasible uses the same approach and naming scheme for its focus on OER and MOOCs.''
-''''This wiki is the largest professional wiki in the world devoted to virtual learning in education - at all levels (schools, colleges and universities) including informal learning, open learning/OER and distance learning.'''''
-Welcome to the entry page of this wiki where you will find information about virtual schools, colleges and universities. The idea behind this wiki was to create an open and public space where researchers can share information about virtual developments in various different educational sectors. It was supported and maintained by a community of researchers and is aimed at stakeholders, researchers and practitioners who would like to have easy access to the latest information about how the virtual phenomenon is manifesting itself in schools, colleges and universities around the world.  The wiki will remain for the foreseeable future. The Editors are grateful to KU Leuven for hosting and support.
+=== 26 January 2015 - updates to Chile and related entries ===
-'''''Recent changes'''''
+New entry for [[Docentes On Line]] and updates for the [[Chile]] country report and [[Think Academy International Virtual School]], by [[Michel Morales]]
-{{Special:RecentChanges}}
-== ''2017 news'' ==
-=== 3 October 2017 - wiki will stay available ===
-This wiki will remain open as long as the editors judge it to have relevance especially to a European audience. You can help us make the case if you let us know when you use or cite Re.ViCa pages.
-=== 2 October 2017 - updated Armenia and Georgia entries ===
-See [[Armenia]] and [[Georgia]]
-== ''2016 news'' ==
-=== 18 October 2016 - how to tag new edits  for "when the last ship sails" ===
-Despite the warning at the top of this page, ''already-registered'' editors who wish to make edits can still do so, provided that their edits are new entries or updates of existing pages. To ensure that these new/modified pages are transferred editors should include the line
-<nowiki>[[Category:VICA16]]</nowiki>
-in their edit.
-(PS the quote reference is to Tolkien not Sting)
-=== 14 October 2016 - page migration to archive wiki believed to be complete ===
-The migration of all content pages to the active wiki http://virtual-learning.referata.com is believed to be complete. It remains to migrate the files (of images and reports).
-We have put some new search and list pages on the active site - see the link on the [http://virtual-learning.referata.com Main Page].
+=== 9 July 2015 - updates to [[Armenia]] and [[Georgia]]===
 == Key links ==
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 == Funding ==
-This wiki is supported in part by volunteers who undertake the editing and by [[Matic Media Ltd]]. The wiki is hosted by [[K.U.Leuven]].
+Funding to launch this wiki has come mainly from the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission through projects relevant to virtual learning. In addition, a series of smaller initiatives and volunteer labour have aimed and continue to keep updating the material. (See in particular [[e-World]] and [[LUOERL]].)
-Funding to launch this wiki came mainly from the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission through projects relevant to virtual learning. In addition, a series of smaller initiatives and volunteer labour have aimed and continue to keep updating the material. (See in particular [[e-World]] and [[LUOERL]].)
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+[[POERUP]] has now started putting material on this wiki as well as on its own [http://poerup.referata.com POERUP wiki]
 == Disclaimer ==
-The Editorial Team makes every effort to ensure, but does not guarantee, the accuracy of the information on this wiki, but we warmly invite anyone who sees incorrect information to let us know. You can read more information on this topic [[Disclaimer| here]].
+The Editorial Team makes every effort to ensure, but does not guarantee, the accuracy of the information on this wiki, but we warmly invite anyone who sees incorrect information to register and correct the page yourself within the wiki spirit. You can read more information on this topic [[Disclaimer| here]].
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-This wiki was partly funded through the [[Re.ViCa]] project (2007-2009), then through the [[VISCED]] project (2011-2012), and finally though the POERUP project (2011-2014)  with support from the European Commission through the [http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/ Lifelong Learning Programme].
+This wiki has been partly funded through the [[Re.ViCa]] project (2007-2009), then through the [[VISCED]] project (2011-2012), and currently though the POERUP project (2011-2014)  with support from the European Commission through the [http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/ Lifelong Learning Programme]. The wiki reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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-''The wiki reflects the views only of the authors, and the European Commission, European Parliament or any other funders commercial or state cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.''
+== Join us and start adding to the wiki! ==
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+Do you know an interesting Virtual Campus, Virtual College or Virtual School? Do you want to provide information about blended and e-learning in your country? We warmly welcome your input, so join the research team by registering here for [[Special:Userlogin|free]] and help us to grow this wiki as a large and dynamic inventory of Virtual Learning!
+[[Before you start editing]], please read our short list of [[Help:Contents|Guidelines]] and visit our [[Tutorial|Wiki Editing Tutorial]]. Experts should also check out [[Collating sequence]].
 == Sysops only ==