The explosion of the World Wide Web and the electronic trend of university teaching have transformed the learning style to become more learner-centered, which has popularized the digital delivery of mediated lectures as an alternative or an adjunct to traditional lectures. Despite its potential and popularity, virtual lectures have not been adopted yet in Jordanian universities. This research a...

How universal is the campus metaphor? The context for this question is the emergence of virtual universities and colleges, which are beginning to deliver distance learning courses and programs of study on the web. The recipients of this type of education may rarely, or even never, come into physical contact with the academic institution, other students or the teaching staff. They may be located...

In Finland, the Ministry of Education is funding a three-year project to establish the Virtual University of Finland, during years 2001-2003. One of the particular goals in the project is to develop new methods for science education. The three universities in eastern Finland, University of Joensuu, University of Kuopio, and Lappeenranta University of Technology, work jointly in the virtual univ...

Virtual tour is a prominent problem in virtual reality research. In this paper, we review some virtual tour system and propose a project plan of “Virtual tour in Tsinghua University”. The core code and the prototype of the system are completed. Experimental results show that our design is feasible and effective. It can bring the feeling of reality and immersion.

In this article we investigate the role of recommender systems and their potential in the educational and scientific environment of a Virtual University. The key idea is to use the information aggregation capabilities of a recommender system to improve the tutoring and consulting services of a Virtual University in an automated way and thus scale tutoring and consulting in a personalized way to...

This case describes the Virtual Learning Center of the University of Granada in Spain. It relates the creation of a specific service structure to manage the promotion of the use of ICT and elearning in the educational processes of a large, traditional, five century-old university. With just the base of a few previous pilot experiences, this Center, created in February 2001, had to address the t...

in recent years, virtual communities have been significantly popular and almost all of them are targeted for business profitability. in our study, the profitability of these communities for businesses has been analyzed from a commercial perspective. the study considers virtual community as a business model which can have a great impact on consumer purchase decision process. with respect to refe...

This paper addresses the Semi-virtual Multidimensional Distance Learning System (SMDL), which is a technical, pedagogical, and organisational prototype-structure of a semi-virtual university. SDML includes both synchronous and asynchronous learning modes. During the initial stage of our project, we regularly transmitted a lecture from a specially equipped lecture room in one university to an eq...

The article investigates factors that may make the Nigeria Virtual Library Project a myth or reality. Questionnaires were used for data collection, using 22 University Librarians in federal universities as respondents, and 14 (64%) University Librarians completed the questionnaires. Three indicators were used to determine the myth or reality of evolving virtual libraries in Nigeria: availabilit...