University of Cape Town

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The University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa's oldest and public university located on the Rhodes,it was founded in 1829 as the South African College.This is the best university in Africa according to both studies ( THES - QS World University Rankings and Academic Ranking of World Universities). Enables e-learning through the online learning environment Vula and LearnOnline Self-training Courses. Vula means Open! and is a local name for SAKAI, an international open-source Learning Management System.

Vula offers learning materials, to download these for printing, to participate in asynchronous bulletin board discussions, in some subjects they have created blogs where the students have to participate and learn from the knowledge of the others (hot topics or interesting ones will be highlighted), synchronous chat groups, and to do exercises and online tests from time to time. One of the flexible courses UCT offers is the Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health.

The UCT web site is at http://www.uct.ac.za/