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Welcome to the Virtual Education Wiki, devoted to virtual learning in education at all levels (schools, colleges and universities) including informal learning, open learning (OER) and distance learning. It is also known as the Open Education Wiki.

As this is a wiki, you can edit it as part of the Virtual Education Wiki Community. Prior to contributing, you may find it useful to view our help pages and note that anything you change may be amended or deleted by other wiki users.

The idea in 2008 behind the original wiki was to create an open and public space where researchers could share information about virtual developments in various different educational sectors. It was supported and maintained during 2009-2015 by a community of researchers from EU and beyond and was aimed at stakeholders, researchers and practitioners who wanted to have easy access to the latest information about how the virtual phenomenon is manifesting itself in schools, colleges and universities around the world. You will therefore find much of this legacy information in the wiki. The wiki is now being updated in all its aspects, focussing initially on OER initiatives, OER policies and virtual schools.

Current Wiki Editors


Paul Bacsich, Matic Media Ltd	Charlotte Doody, Wiki Contributor

Paul Bacsich, Wiki Host, Matic Media Ltd

Charlotte Doody, Wiki Contributor

Latest news and resources

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See News

PAPERS WANTED

Special Issue of the journal Education Sciences on Virtual Schools - deadline October 2024

The Special Issue aims to consolidate cutting-edge research and insights into K-12 virtual schools to serve as a comprehensive resource for researchers, policy makers, school leaders and virtual school teachers.

Its full title is "Virtual Schools for K-12 Education: Lessons Learned and Implications for Digital K-12 and Other Sectors of Education" (Guest Editors: Paul Bacsich, Sara de Freitas and Bieke Schreurs).

The deadline for submissions is now 1 October 2024.

For the latest information see https://bacsich.org/2024/03/13/special-issue-of-the-journal-education-sciences-on-virtual-schools-call-for-papers/

Manifesto for Digitally Enabled Schooling in England

Released 28 May 2024. See this page

Old News

For earlier news see Old News

Warning

Please be aware that with the large volume of legacy information contained within this wiki, a degree of "link rot" may be present.

General area

See links in Sidebar for the main content options. Alternatively see below:

Virtual schools (K-12)
Virtual colleges (TVET)
Virtual campuses (i.e. higher education online)
Open Education Initiatives (OER or MOOCs, in any educational sector)

For the former Main Page (2011-22) see 2022 Main Page

Admin area

(Current server name today is openeducation.wiki)

> Special:RecentChanges
> Special:AllPages

Content is available under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license (International) unless otherwise noted.

The wiki is supported by Matic Media Ltd, with hosting and technical support from Wikiworks. Particular thanks are due to Yaron Koren, the renowned MediaWiki developer, for his work on migration and data transfer.

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-* ''[http://www.virtualschoolsandcolleges.eu/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=500&days=30 Last month's changes]''<br>
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-* '''[[:Category:VISCED|All VISCED pages]]'''
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+![[:Category:Virtual schools]][[File:Button virtual-online colleges.png|alt=Image of a person doing online learning by Katerina Holmes from Pexels. This image sits on top of a navy blue circle. Image of a search bar with virtual/online schools across the centre of the image.|thumb|Virtual/online schools button|250x250px]]
+![[Virtual colleges|Virtual_college]][[File:Wiki-button virtual schools.png|alt=Image of a person doing online learning by Katerina Holmes from Pexels. This image sits on top of a navy blue circle. Image of a search bar with virtual/online colleges across the centre of the image.|thumb|Virtual/online colleges button|250x250px]]
+![[Programmes]][[File:Wiki-button virtual HE.png|alt=Image of a person doing online learning by Katerina Holmes from Pexels. This image sits on top of a navy blue circle. Image of a search bar with virtual/online HE across the centre of the image.|thumb|Virtual/online HE button|250x250px]]
+![[Open Education Initiatives - list]][[File:Wiki-button OER.png|alt=Image of a person doing online learning by Katerina Holmes from Pexels. This image sits on top of a navy blue circle. Image of a search bar with OER across the centre of the image.|thumb|OER Initiatives button|250x250px]]
+|}Welcome to the Virtual Education Wiki, devoted to virtual learning in education at all levels (schools, colleges and universities) including informal learning, '''open learning''' (OER) and distance learning. It is also known as the Open Education Wiki.
-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.
+As this is a wiki, you can edit it as part of the [[Special:ListUsers|Virtual Education Wiki Community]].  Prior to contributing, you may find it useful to view our [[Help:Index|help pages]] and '''note that anything you change may be amended or deleted by other wiki users.'''
-'''Join us and start adding to the wiki!'''
+The idea in 2008 behind the original wiki was to create an open and public space where researchers could share information about virtual developments in various different educational sectors. It was supported and maintained during 2009-2015 by a community of researchers from EU and beyond and was aimed at stakeholders, researchers and practitioners who wanted to have easy access to the latest information about how the virtual phenomenon is manifesting itself in schools, colleges and universities around the world. You will therefore find much of this legacy information in the wiki. The wiki is now being updated in all its aspects, focussing initially on OER initiatives, OER policies and virtual schools.
+== '''''Current Wiki Editors''''' ==
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+
+![[File:Wiki-editor Paul.png|alt=Image of Paul Bacsich alongside his name within a navy blue circle. |thumb|Paul Bacsich, [https://bacsich.org/ Matic Media Ltd]]]
+![[File:Wiki-editor Charlotte.png|alt=Image of Charlotte Doody next to her name, all within a navy blue circle.|thumb|Charlotte Doody, Wiki Contributor]]
+|}
+Paul Bacsich, Wiki Host, [https://bacsich.org/ Matic Media Ltd]
-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!
+Charlotte Doody, Wiki Contributor
-[[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]].
+== '''''Latest news and resources''''' ==
+[[File:Wiki News.png|alt=News and resources written above a hand holding a newspaper. All within a navy blue circle.|thumb|Decorative image]]
+See [[News]]
-Funding to launch this wiki has come in part from the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission through two projects relevant to virtual learning:
+=== <span style="color:#2a4b8d; background:#fc3">PAPERS WANTED</span> ===
+[[Special Issue of the journal Education Sciences on Virtual Schools]] - deadline October 2024
-{| class="prettytable" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0;"
+The Special Issue aims to consolidate cutting-edge research and insights into K-12 virtual schools to serve as a comprehensive resource for researchers, policy makers, school leaders and virtual school teachers.
-|-
-| width=49% style="border-top: 1px solid darkgray;border-left: 1px solid darkgray;border-right: 1px solid darkgray; padding-bottom:0;"|
-[[Image:VISCED logo.png|250px|center]]
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-| width=49% style="border-top: 1px solid darkgray;border-left: 1px solid darkgray;border-right: 1px solid darkgray;"|
-<center>[[Image:Logo Re.ViCa.jpg|220px|center]]</center>
-|-
-| align="top" style="border-bottom: 1px solid darkgray;border-left: 1px solid darkgray;border-right: 1px solid darkgray; padding: 8px; background-color: #FFF8E5;" |
-This wiki is currently maintained by the [[VISCED]] project on '''Virtual Schools and Colleges''' (2011 - 2012), which aims to make an inventory and to carry 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.
+Its full title is "Virtual Schools for K-12 Education: Lessons Learned and Implications for Digital K-12 and Other Sectors of Education" (Guest Editors: Paul Bacsich, Sara de Freitas and Bieke Schreurs).
-VISCED will enhance Re.ViCa’s earlier research work on this wiki on country reports and resources with research results relevant to virtual schools and exemplars.
+The deadline for submissions is <big>'''now 1 October 2024'''</big>.
+For the latest information see https://bacsich.org/2024/03/13/special-issue-of-the-journal-education-sciences-on-virtual-schools-call-for-papers/
-Read more [[VISCED| here]].
+=== Manifesto for Digitally Enabled Schooling in England ===
-|
+Released 28 May 2024. See [[K-12 Manifesto England 2024|this page]]
-| align="top" style="border-bottom: 1px solid darkgray;border-left: 1px solid darkgray;border-right: 1px solid darkgray; padding: 8px; background-color: #E5F9FF;" |
+=== Old News ===
-Originally set up in 2007 by the [[Re.ViCa]] project on '''Virtual Campuses in universities and colleges''' (2007- 2009), this wiki started out with providing an inventory and showing the results of a systematic review of Virtual Campus initiatives of the past decade within higher education throughout the world.
+For earlier news see [[Old News]]
-In 2009, Re.ViCa research pages on this wiki include over 300 categorised [[Programmes]], [[Country reports]], nine in-depth [[Institutional reports]] and a large number of related [[Resources]] (research projects, outputs, and publications).
+== Warning ==
+'''''Please be aware that with the large volume of legacy information contained within this wiki, a degree of "link rot" may be present.'''''
-Read more [[Re.ViCa| here]].
+== General area ==
-|}
+See links in Sidebar for the main content options. Alternatively see below:
+*[[Virtual schools]] (K-12)
+*[[Virtual colleges]] (TVET)
+*[[Virtual campuses]] (i.e. higher education online)
+*[[Open Education Initiatives]] (OER or MOOCs, in any educational sector)
-'''Receiving news about virtual schools and colleges on a bi-monthly basis'''
+For the former Main Page (2011-22) see [[2022 Main Page]]
-You can subscribe for free to receive the bi-monthly Virtual Schools and Colleges Newsletter, by the VISCED project team. Subscribe [http://www.virtualschoolsandcolleges.info/newsletter online].
+== Admin area ==
+(Current server name today is {{SERVERNAME}})
-'''Disclaimer'''
+> [[Special:RecentChanges]]<br>> [[Special:AllPages]]
-The Editorial 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]], [[VISCED]] or any other project authorised to place material on this wiki.
+[[Category:VISCED]]
+[[Category:POERUP content]]
-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 projects, often with the help of an International Advisory Committee - and may be found challenging by some readers. The [[Re.ViCa]] team conducted its research on Virtual Campuses along a broad range of parameters. Most information is validated by the numerous discussion sessions that the Re.ViCa team has organised with different stakeholder groups throughout the project. The same will be true of [[VISCED]]. 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.
+[[Category:VISCED-20]]
+[[Category:VISCED23]]
-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.
+----
+Content is available under '''Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license (International)''' unless otherwise noted.
-{| class="prettytable" style="background-color: #F9F8F2;"
+{| class="wikitable"
-|-
+!'''''The wiki is supported by [[Matic Media Ltd]], with hosting and technical support from [https://www.wikiworks.com/ Wikiworks].'''''
-| width="183" align="center"|
+'''''Particular thanks are due to [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yaron_Koren Yaron Koren], the renowned MediaWiki developer, for his work on migration and data transfer.'''''
-[[Image:EU LifeLongLearning logo.gif]]
-|
-This wiki has been partly funded through the [[Re.ViCa]] project (2007-2009) and is now funded through the [[VISCED]] project (2011-2012) 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.
 |}
-In addition, various smaller initiatives and volunteer labour are endeavouring to keep up to date the university-related material. (See in particular [[e-World]] and [[LUOERL]].)
-== Sysops only ==
-[[Special:ConfirmAccounts|Confirm account requests]]
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-[[Category:VISCED]]