This paper focuses mainly on the relation between the use of a virtual learning environment (VLE) and students’ performance. Therefore, virtual learning environments are characterised and a study is presented emphasising the frequency of access to a VLE and its relation with the students’ performance from a public higher education institution during the academic year of 2014-15. The main aim of...

The Education through Virtual Experience (EVE) research group based at the National University of Ireland Maynooth have successfully developed an online Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for Astronomy as part of the Virtual Telescopes in Education (VTIE) project. The VTIE VLE has been developed to provide online software support for the engagement of schoolchildren and their teachers in a scie...

The use of 3D (3 Dimensional) Virtual Environments is gaining interest in the context of academic discussions on E-learning technologies, as it provides several advantages over classical learning material. However, the use of 3D for learning environments also has drawbacks, especially usability and the effectiveness may cause problems. One way to overcome these drawbacks is by providing an adap...

Recent advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) provide an opportunity to build a self growing and sharing virtual environment for teaching and learning. Cloud computing is one of the latest technological advancement in ICT domain. Cloud computing technologies have changed the way applications are developed and accessed. A Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is a system for del...

Learning analytics is the analysis of electronic learning data which allows teachers, course designers and administrators of virtual learning environments to search for unobserved patterns and underlying information in learning processes. The main aim of learning analytics is to improve learning outcomes and the overall learning process in electronic learning virtual classrooms and computer-sup...

This thesis presents a Web-based Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) called the Education through Virtual Experience (EVE) Portal which supports eScience learning for schoolchildren. The VLE guides students and teachers in the production of collaborative research papers to summarize their inquirybased activities. This thesis details the formative evaluations carried out on the VLE and provides e...

Frog Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is used to enhanced teaching and learning in Malaysia government public schools since 2012. VLE has become the main mechanism in supporting on-line education in primary and secondary schools in Malaysia. Thus, Frog VLE was introduced by Malaysia’s Ministry of Education (MoE) as a tool to support student’s learning which evolved from the 1Bestari Net Proje...

Computer-based virtual simulation is being widely used for the purposes of education and skills training. These include special needs education to sophisticate teaching aids in high schools and universities for the delivery of medical and scientific education. This project investigates the issues in the development of virtual learning environments (VLEs) in the teaching of biology to students i...

This chapter discusses theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of a design of a university learning environment for SMART education. Smart technology is analyzed against university background. The authors consider a process of transformation from e-learning to smart education, in particular the VLE objective according to the concept of smart education, formation of individual learning...

The growth of online education along with decisions by many prominent higher education institutions to offer virtually all their classes online has altered the strategic view of online education. Today, 66% of chief academic officers consider online education critical to their long-term strategy and 67% believe outcomes from online classes are equivalent to those in face-toface classes. Hence, ...