TEAM WORKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING THROUGH A CHALLENGE-BASED VIRTUAL HIGHER EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT

Coping with Learning through a Foreign Language in Higher Education in Rwanda

Measuring performance of virtual learning environment system in higher education

Purpose – Virtual learning environments (VLE) have become a prevalent tool in higher education institutions for supporting and facilitating both teaching and learning. They form a platform for teachers and learners to access lecture notes, read announcements, communicate with others, complete assignments, participate in discussions and group work, and take quizzes and tests. Nowadays, there are...

Higher education as a visual practice: seeing through the virtual learning environment

As the practices of higher education shift online, the work of learners, teachers and scholars increasingly takes place within the domain of the image. The ‘digital turn’ we are experiencing, both in higher education and in the wider culture, accompanies an ‘iconic turn’ in which the logic of the image as it emerges on our screens has a growing influence over our modes of meaning-making (Kress ...

Virtual Learning and Higher Education

It is clear that the Internet and other global information infrastructures provide a major challenge to Higher Education. Questions such as: the extent to which education should become ‘virtual’, the actual cost and value of such innovation and to what degree such education suits its stakeholders (e.g. students) are now discussed the world over. These issues formed the focus for a conference he...

Virtual Learning and Higher Education

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