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This is the Virtual Learning and Higher Education home page. We need to explore the varieties of impact made on higher education by advances in technology and the implications this has for the methods and delivery of education. The impact on the locations and institutions where education has traditionally been delivered will also be examined. Similar website can also be found at Virtual Learning Network Homepage VLNH.com The emergence of Information and Communication Technologies within education is seen as a promising development. But what future has Higher Education when the virtual world of on-line education has so much more to offer? The aim of this project is to examine Virtuality within Higher Education in an attempt to critique both its essential characteristics and its future possibilities to influence the education of adult learners. Virtual Learning Network Homepage Virtual Learning Network Home. What is the Virtual Learning Network? The Virtual Learning Network (VLN) is a web-based service to facilitate the sharing of information about courses provided by education organizations using video conferencing facilities. The service now include tertiary education organizations, and be in a position to include early childhood centers, private training establishments, businesses and other government agencies. Background For many of the smaller, rural secondary schools, the challenge of providing a sufficiently broad range of curriculum options for students at the senior level of the school cannot be met within existing, local resources. An increasing number of schools across the country have worked together to establish clusters linked by audio or video conference networks, allowing a teacher in one school to teach a ‘class’ comprising students in one or several of the other schools in the cluster. Demand also came from schools for the coordination of support for schools using video conferencing, and the desire of schools in these clusters to know what offerings were available in the wider context. Emphasis has been given to involving tertiary education organizations on the network, with the primary focus being the addition of courses provided by the tertiary institution intended for school students. Already, three major tertiary education organizations have become a part of the VLN. The Virtual Learning Network is about more than simply providing a technical service. It involves socializing the vision of what may be achieved through a fully functioning brokerage service, the provision of pedagogical and technical advice and guidance, and making contributions to the development of a coordinated and strategic approach to the provision of support and services. |
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