What is Virtual University

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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. Learn more in: Communities in Technology-Enhanced Environments for Learning

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University that provides education through the medium of the Internet rather than in physical classrooms. Learn more in: Part-Time Faculty Affiliation with the Virtual University

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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. Learn more in: Higher Education's New Frontier for the E-University and Virtual Campus

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A university that provides access to higher education programs through the internet or other electronic media format. Learn more in: Strategic Leadership in Instructional Design: Applying the Principles of Instructional Design through the Lens of Strategic Leadership to Distance Education

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An institution involved as provider of learning opportunities to students, using a Web-based approach to deliver programs, courses, and support and is organized under the format of alliances/partnerships to facilitate teaching and learning to occur (based on the definition proposed by the Commonwealth of Learning). Learn more in: The Agile and Virtual University

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A university that delivers courses (typically credit, but also non-credit) primarily online, that is, by networks such as the Internet or intranets, using asynchronous technologies, such as computer conferencing or Web-based technologies especially conceived for education. Learn more in: Hypermedia Modules for Distance Education and Beyond

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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). Learn more in: E-Learning as Organizational Strategy

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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. Learn more in: Corporate - Higher Education Alliance

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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. Learn more in: The Evolution of Virtual Universities

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A 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. Learn more in: From R&D Project to Virtual Universities