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Virtual Initiatives

Note that:

  1. A number of the Czech HEIs use Student Information System (SIS) which is an application used for educational institutions to monitor their students’ data such as test scores, schedules, attendance, … but this isn’t categorised as e-learning. It’s a supportive application for the institutions, not a means of learning for the students.
  2. The majority of the Czech HEIs also offers combined study (Kombinovaná forma) and distance (dálková forma) learning (sometimes focussing on Lifelong Learning in particular), but it’s mostly not clearly elaborated what the level of e-learning (elektronické studijní - e-learningu) is or in how many courses this is available.


Interesting Virtual Campus Initiatives

It provides OUBS’s students with local support, organizes its courses in Czech and Slovak languages and is also responsible for sales and marketing in both countries. In addition to this, Open Management Int. develops own distance learning programmes/courses focused on different management skills (Financial Management and Management for Line Managers). Most of OUBS' courses employ blended learning: a variety of methods such as traditional books, online conferencing & resources, face-to-face tutorials and DVDs. In 2009, its web site listed 12 tutors.

The OUBS is accredited by the three premier management education associations:


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Interesting Programmes

HEI that utilise Moodle


HEI that offer distance learning / combined studies or part-time studies

This section is without detailed information, it just shows indicators of the terms these Universities use:

  • DL (distance learning)
  • combined study (CS) or
  • PS (part-time study)

Note that we cannot assume that distance learning is e-learning and combined study is blended learning. It mostly refers to the amount of contact hours.


HEI that use SIS


Details on e-learning, student numbers, documents of relevance, study form details

  • Masaryk University (MU): 38989 students (in 2007) with 18216 students in lifelong learning. It’s the second-largest public university in the Czech Republic and the leading higher education institution in Moravia. It has an e-learning portal, many online documents including text books and an information sources system.



  • College of Tourism, Hotel And Spa Management offers a combined study form: Students who combine attendance blocks with distance learning. Students receive a CD with a complete learning program processed guarantor of the combined study and are in contact with teachers primarily through e-mail.




  • Unicorn College implemented the platform Unicorn Universe, which integrates e-learning tools, teaching materials, the study agenda and the administration of the school in one unit, according to its own description. But the level of communication and interaction through this platform is unknown.


  • University of Economics and Management Studies start three times in the year. CS or DS. In 2003-2004 the University introduced the "Assistance Programme for Students with Disabilities", with which the university offers tuition-free education and provides the disabled student with a personal computer with internet connection, a dictaphone and other equipment, including textbooks and the assistance of a study counsellor. The university enables the disabled to study according to an individual schedule and adapts the means of communication to their needs (electronic mail, study materials on the internet, individual consultations with teachers, etc.). They have an Extranet


In conjuction with the Faculty of physical culture of Palacký University the system Unifor (UNIFOR PDF)was evolved. At present the system Unifor is used for distance studying in campus, for another education of already certificated teachers, but also for studying of kindergarten workers.
Gaudenz Assenza has initiated an Internet e-learning platform at Palacky University as a demonstration project for future rollout in the entire Central/Eastern Europe region.
Source: Civic Education Project® (CEP) - Country Programs - Czech Republic




  • University of Ostrava (OSU) has previously had a Virtual University and provided e-Learning also specialised for students with disabilities in the past, as the article below shows: “The University of Ostrava opens a project of building up the Virtual University and providing distance education by means of online learning. Environments for the creation of the training courses ToolBook II Instructor by the company Click2learn have been bought from grants; administration of the studies is secured in Tutor 2000 environment and this all runs on a Dell server. Currently a team of specialists, who will participate in the creation of courses and administrative-technical provision of the teaching, is being created in the Centre of Information Technologies.”
Source: The eLearning industry and market in Europe, Lot 1, Appendix to Synthesis Report (PDF - EN - 214 pages by Danish Technological Institute, Competence and IT/Analyses (Relevant Introduction (PDF -EN - 43 pages)
Right now, the site lists that its Centre of Information Technologies (CIT) provides students with information system of study agenda (STAG), Novell net, portal, and they link to OUPortal (Moodle) as their form of e-learning.



  • Tomas Bata University in Zlín/Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín is a new university (2001) which provides education for 11,000 students according to its own web site. About Part-time mode of study, a multimedia form of self-study, the University states “The multimedia character of this mode of study is given by the fact that all available means of distance communication are used to present the curriculum. The TBU Faculty of Multimedia Communications offers part-time Bachelor’s and follow-up Master’s programmes in Visual Arts, degree course in Multimedia and Design, as well as Bachelor’s and follow-up Master’s programmes in Media and Communication Studies, degree course in Marketing Communications.”


  • Private College of Economic Studies, Ltd. (PCES) "This College offers e-learning focussing on disabled employees (Google-translated page). One of their main goals and tasks in 2007 was "developing ICT infrastructure and products (e.g. e-learning portal)". Two academic teams have been working on grant projects “PCES e-learning capability development” and “Accounting and taxation courses for disabled self-employed workers” cofunded by the European Social Fund, CR and Prague municipality budgets (within JPD3 scheme). Both projects have been underway since September 2006 in partnership with the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Thirteen on-line courses have been completed and piloted. They are customized preferentially to PCES undergraduates’ needs, e-learning content having been developed in a variety of subjects taught at the college. They are available on PCES e-portal which was opened recently. In their SWOT they include as one of their strenghts: “part-time mode of study support through e-learning aids” and “the teaching staff well-trained in distance learning aids creation”.
Source: Annual Report of Private College of Economic Studies, Ltd. for the year 2007 (abridged), PDF - 14 pages."



  • NEWTON College states: [[http://www.newtoncollege.cz/en/index.html?pageid=17&profil=1 “NEWTON College counts on using various pedagogical forms and methods such as lectures, e-learning, learning by doing, moderated discussions, on the job training, coaching, action learning, interactive moderated discussions and others” but no further information on the e-learning part is available.




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