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Depending on a context, the term points to networked universities or to open and technology-enhanced education at the universities. However,
virtual university
courses are widely used to support face-to-face education.
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2.
University
that provides education through the medium of the Internet rather than in physical classrooms.
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3.
Sometimes called telematics
university
is an organization that provides higher education on the Internet. Among these organizations there are truly “
virtual
” institutions, existing only as aggregations of universities, institutes or departments providing courses over the Internet and organizations with a legal framework, yet named
virtual
because they appear only on the Internet.
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4.
A
university
that provides access to higher education programs through the internet or other electronic media format.
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7.
The term
virtual
/college
university
(VCU) is used today to describe a broad range of entities and activities: corporate training centers, distance learning efforts of individual institutions, nonprofit and governmental education activities, and multi-state and international learning collaboratives. Aside from institutional programs, most of these initiatives are not true “universities” in the degree-granting sense of the word.
Virtual
universities supply infrastructure for providing students with learning experiences and related support services partially or totally online (Aoki & Pogroszewski, 1998; Epper & Garn, 2004).
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8.
An organization comprising one or many higher education degree-granting institution(s) that either provides some or all of its programs on the Internet or acts as a
virtual
organization.
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9.
A
university
that accommodates administration and lecturing staff without having any physical lecture theatres. This alleviates the need for limiting the number of students that can be enrolled simultaneously.
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university
without one fixed campus; either an institution offering online/Net-based learning only, or a networked
university
having multiple campuses and offering Net-based learning facilities.
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