What is Virtual Learning Environment

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Computer-based synchronous and asynchronous higher education learning system that includes learning management systems, such as Blackboard, to virtual worlds, such as Second Life. Learn more in: Global Accreditation for a Knowledge-Oriented Community: Foundational Change breeds Global Access to Educational and Economic Opportunity

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It refers to a virtual space for remote learning, with remote interaction for consultation of multimedia learning contents, exchange of information and sharing of materials. It does not only replicate the mechanisms of a “physical” teaching environment, but it allows for the creation and management of a more effective learning ecosystem based on digital tools and interactions for a personalised management of educational time and users’ attitudes. Learn more in: Experiences of Digital Survey Data Applied for the Involvement of Societal Smart-Users in Cultural Heritage Awareness

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The digital/web-based environment used for technology mediated learning. The environment consists of the resources and hosts activities, interactions, and assessments in a structured manner. Learn more in: From Face-to-Face to Digital Learning: Implications for Pedagogy, Learning Design, and Instruction

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Web-based platform for the digital aspects of course study. Learn more in: The Role of Leadership and Communication: Re-Conceptualizing Graduate Instruction Online

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This is a web-based learning community where learners in different geographical locations achieve their learning goals. Learn more in: First-Year Students' Experience With Virtual Learning Environment

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See course management systems. Learn more in: Higher Education's Use of Course Management Software

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An online system that allows education materials to be transmitted through the internet to transfer knowledge from organization to employee, or teacher to student. Learn more in: Different Shades of Virtual Learning Environments: From Retrospective to Prospective

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An on-line interactive, integrated learning environment supported on the Internet, usually institution based. Learn more in: Disability, Chronic Illness, and Distance Education

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Environment that seeks to provide support to teachers, managers and student in planning, construction and execution of educational activities, as for the insertion and make available educational materials. Learn more in: Virtual Worlds in the Educational Context

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Is the software systems available to deliver course content and also contains communication elements. Learn more in: Blended Learning: The Best of Both Worlds

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Web-based platform often referred to as a learning management system that relies on 2D interactions and content. Learn more in: Transdisciplinary Collaborative Development of Healthcare Virtual Simulations

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a system for delivering learning materials to students via the web. Learn more in: The Effect of List-Liner-Based Interaction Technique in a 3D Interactive Virtual Biological Learning Environment

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A designed information space, a place or a configuration of places where people can interact, that can support learning activities. Learn more in: Participatory and Appreciative Adult Learning and Reflection in Virtual Environments: Towards the Development of an Appreciative Stewardship

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an online platform that allows the process of teaching and learning replacing the educational processes from classrooms to the internet. Learn more in: Influence of Positive Student-Teacher Interaction on the Meaning-Making Process in Virtual Learning: A Study in the Primary English Class

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Software designed to support learning activities that involve information and communication technologies, and that allow us to integrate multiple languages and multimedia resources, to present the information in an organized layout, develop interactions between people and objects of knowledge and elaborate and socialize productions. They are especially created to help teachers elaborate contents and administer them, as well as to allow a regular follow-up of the students’ progress. They are also considered to be additional tools to be used in in-class situations. Learn more in: Web-Based Learning Environment for Medical Education: E-Fer, A Practical Tool for Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Wounds

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Virtual Learning Environment is defined as asynchronous or/and synchronous facilitation of learning and teaching delivered over the internet or intranet using digital gadgets, such as desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Learn more in: Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities in a Virtual Learning Environment

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A virtual learning environment is an online platform used for educational purposes and includes resources related to information and reading. Learn more in: Examining Virtual Classroom Platforms in Hospitality Education: Effect of Service Quality, Perceived Ease of Use, and Perceived Usefulness

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An online environment in which learning materials are delivered to students. Learn more in: An Interactive System Evaluation of Blackboard System Applications: A Case Study of Higher Education

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This refers to a system for delivering learning materials to students through the web, which includes assessment, student study tracking, collaboration and communication tools, which can be accessed both on and off-campus, thereby supporting students’ learning outside the school premises, 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Learn more in: Perspectives and Implementation of ICT in Teacher Education

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A web-based platform allowing for online learning and content sharing. Learn more in: Minding the Competency Gap From College to Career: The Value of Virtual Teaming and VLEs for Skill Development

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It is a Web 2.0 technology that presents interactive virtual world to users and provides opportunity to experience in a narrative. Learn more in: Critical Thinking and Digital Technologies: An Outcome Evaluation

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A platform which allows educators to deliver material, interact with learners and track progress. Learn more in: Internet Technologies and Language Teacher Education

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It is a web-based platform to deliver and share teaching and assessment materials (e.g., reading list, module handbook, lectures’ notes, tutorials’ questions, e-assessments, and e-feedbacks) with students. Learn more in: Staff Reflections on Using E-Assessment Feedback in the Digital Age

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A eLearning, mLearning or Cloud System that provides access to classe schedules, digital textbook content, quizzes, homework, grades, assessment, and other external pedagogical resources and/or a social space where students and teachers can communicate through interactive discussions, forums of discussion, chat and other technologies. Learn more in: Digital Textbook

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An environment that is created through simulation and is not of the real world. Learn more in: Immersive Virtual Reality in Sports: Coaching and Training

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A VLE refers to the components in which learners and tutors participate in ‘online’ interactions of various kinds, including online learning. Learn more in: Virtual Learning Environments in Health

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Online setting in which participants communicate through the use of avatars, or computer-created representations of themselves. Learn more in: Interaction in Distance Learning

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A virtual learning environment is an online-based platform that provides digital solutions to students and professors that enhance the learning experience. Learn more in: Comparative Study of Artificial Intelligence-Based Teaching With Human Interactive Teaching

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A virtual learning environment in educational technology is a web-based platform for the digital aspects of courses of study, usually within educational institutions. Learn more in: COVID-19 and the Impact on the UK's HEI Students From an Imposed Virtual Learning Environment

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A software system which enables teachers and learners to communicate, and which provides support for course management and assessment. Learn more in: E-Research Collaboration, Conflict and Compromise

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See course management systems. Learn more in: Higher Education's Use of Course Management Software

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An online-based platform for supporting students learning through a wide range of services such as delivering learning materials, providing collaboration opportunities (for students and staff), providing feedback and feedforward, etc. Learn more in: A Problem-Based Learning Technique to Improve Student Engagement in Multidisciplinary Groups in Higher Education

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Course management systems (CMS) that incorporate internet and web technologies to complement education programmes. Learn more in: Educator-Student Partnership: Utilizing Moodle to Investigate How Learner Autonomy Is Expressed

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is a system that supports a range of learning contexts, ranging from conventional, classroom implementation to off-line, distance learning and online learning. Learn more in: Virtual Learning Environment Blends

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A Virtual Learning Environment is an online platform which can be used by tutors and students as a tool within the learning process. It can be used to post learning materials, but also to stimulate discussions, to submit and evaluate student assessments. Learn more in: The Blended Learning Environment in Higher Education: The Tutor and Student Perspective

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A platform for the digital aspects of courses of study. They present resources, activities and interactions within a course structure and provide for the different stages of assessment. Learn more in: Educational Practices Resulting From Digital Intelligence

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The term virtual learning environment is used here to refer to any virtual reality designed on the basis of learning theories with applications towards instruction. The instructional content consists of three-dimensional images or environments that students can interact with in a realistic manner. Learn more in: Modeling Interactive Behaviors While Learning With Digitized Objects in Virtual Reality Environments

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Web-based platform for the digital aspects of course study. Learn more in: The Role of Leadership and Communication: Challenges Reconceptualizing Graduate Instruction

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An electronic educational technology system based on the worldwide web that models conventional in-person education by providing equivalent virtual access to classes, class content, tests, homework, grades, assessments, and other external resources. It is also commonly a social space where students and teachers can interact synchronously or asynchronously through threaded discussions or chat rooms. Learn more in: Critical Thinking Skills in Virtual Learning Environments

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Artificially developed web-based digital platform, which is used for educational content delivery. Learn more in: Principles of Instructional Design for E-Learning and Online Learning Practices: Implications for Medical Education

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Internet or web-based platform used for instruction and learning. Learn more in: How Virtual Work Informs Virtual Learning

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A learning environment in which there is no face-to-face contact with students and learning lessons and curriculum are completed online. Learn more in: Principal Leadership in an Online Environment: Lessons From Hybrid and Fully Virtual Learning

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is a digital environment, which is designed to create a learning experience. Learn more in: Fancy or Efficiency?: Which Are the Guidelines for an Effective Training on VLEs? A Crash Case in Anti-Cancer Pharmaceutical Production

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Is a Web-based platform for the digital aspects of courses of study, usually within educational institutions. Learn more in: Development and Support of E-Learning Systems in Tomsk State Pedagogical University

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Can be (1) a learning scenario, (2) an application to provide access to the learning material over a network, or (3) a (Web-based) application to administrate the courses. Learn more in: A Framework for Adaptive Learning Points

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An online platform (e.g. BlackBoard, Moodle, Fronter, etc.) which supports the creation of online courses. Functionality includes features such as uploading resources, asynchronous and synchronous communication channels (discussion forums, shared whiteboard, chat), assessment or quiz facilities, digital dropbox for submitting work and receiving tutor feedback, weblinks. Usually referred to as a VLE and is typically connected to a Managed Learning Environment (MLE). Learn more in: Using an Adapted Continuous Practice Improvement Model to Support the Professional Development of Teachers in a Collaborative Online Environment

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Virtual space integrating a set of digital resources and tools which favor the interaction among students, teachers and contents which potentialities for the implementation of learning pedagogical strategies. Learn more in: The Importance of Virtual Learning Environments in Higher Education

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A relatively open computer-based system for user a/synchronous interaction. Learn more in: Exploring the Effectiveness of Online Synchronous Learning Management Systems: The Case of a Masters' Level Academic Writing Course