Virtual Campus

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Virtual Campus

• Presented by Sam
• Supervised by Prof. Michael Lyu

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Outline

• What is Virtual Campus?
• Characteristics of Virtual Campus
• Ideal Learning Environment
• Major Features in Designing Virtual Campus
• Basic Architecture
• Ideal Platform
• Encountered Problem
• Conclusion

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What is Virtual Campus?

• Physically NOT existed!!
• A place that let the students fully engage in the
  learning process
• Bringing the students and instructor together is
  not physical classroom but Internet!

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Characteristics

• Virtual
• Independent of demand from supply
• Individualize the combination of resources
• Best meets current demand requirements of
  particular student

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Characteristics (cont)

• Customization
• Students can select the interesting materials
  that can be delivered on demand
• (MAX) the benefit of learning customized
  knowledge and skills
• (MIN) the opportunity cost of time and other
  resources

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Characteristics (cont)

• Collaboration
• active participation of students and instructors
  in an environment that facilitates peer
  interaction, evaluation, and cooperation
• Roles
• Technical considerations to sociological aspects
  of learning

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Ideal Educational Environment

• Responsive AND Developmental

Concerning with the students overall progress,
across all courses and study programmes
Providing effective responses to enquiries
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Major Features in Design

• Orientation - clarify the next steps
• User-friendly - information delivery
• Material - Just in time
• Tracking feedback - important elements
• Establishing maintaining new study habits and
  ways of working
• explicit advice for the beginning student

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Basic Architecture
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Ideal Platform - Internet

• Compatible technology platforms
• reducing the transaction cost
• minimizing the switching cost
• Provides a platform for delivering
• text materials
• audio and video streams
• Increases distribution efficiency

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Encountered Problem

• Need for high performance networks
• Lack of systems infrastructure
• Traditional concept of classroom
• Students computing environment
• Hard to continue attending class

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Conclusion

• Future education and training
• overcome space, time, and performance demands
• increasing geographical distribution
• continuous updating information
• effective learning

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The End