Infrastructures for the Virtual University
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چکیده
Individualised open and distance learning at the university education levels is nowadays a central issue. The dynamically changing social and economic environment we live in claims for new approaches to university education. The advanced information and communication technologies together with several applications offer new perspectives, such as the socalled Virtual University. The paper introduces the basic concepts concerning web-based learning, virtual university, e-learning objects, review the main developments and contributions regarding standardisation and integration in the e-learning domain and discuss some of the main developments addressing the implementation of the Virtual University concept.
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