Teaching at universities is mostly constrained to using blackboards, overhead transparencies and sometimes flip– charts as basic tools. In order to consolidate the course material, and as a preparation to written or oral exams, students have been using course notes, textbooks or copies of transparencies for decades. However, with the advent of powerful hardware and network technology, the conce...

During the last decade, Virtual Reality (VR) systems have progressed from primary laboratory experiments into serious and valuable tools. Thereby, the amount of useful applications has grown in a large scale, covering conventional use, e.g., in science, design, medicine and engineering, as well as more visionary applications such as creating virtual spaces that aim to act real. However, the hig...

This study examines Finnish college students' views on learning in a virtual university. Respondents studied at Helsinki Virtual Open University (HEVI) and the Apaja Internet Service from 1995-99. HEVI is a. Web-based learning environment where students can study, get advice, receive help from tutors, and use office services. Apaja Internet Service provides Web-based courses for university grad...

The paper presents an experimental Socrates ODL pilot project – European Virtual University -Voice Course. The aim of the project is to implement new information technologies (e.g. multimedia in Internet/Intranet) in educational programmes in Logopedics. The project has been developed partly through 8 partners' collaboration within Erasmus and the Socrates Thematic Network in Speech Communicati...

The development of a Virtual Orthopaedic University is underpinned by a pedagogical approach built on current education research in terms of learning being situated and authentic; with learners adopting an active and constructive approach. An aim of the project is to maximise the relationship between different pedagogical approaches, tools and resources in a novel learning environment, while pr...

In distance teaching, direct feedback to the students is difficult to give, but crucial for their learning success. The system Asterix was developed in order to support this direct feedback. It contains different interactive tasks from the area of the formal foundations of computer science. Asterix is available over an internet interface. The implementation of the interactive presentation and c...