A virtual learning environment refers to a set of teaching methods and educational learning tools using computers and the Internet that is designed to enhance a student's learning experience. The principal components of a virtual learning environment includes the following:
- curriculum mapping
- student tracking
- online support for both student and teacher
- electronic communication (e-mail, forums, threaded discussions, chat, Web publishing)
- Internet links for outside curriculum resources
The difference in how educational learning figures in the lives of students and teachers is that the teacher what the student sees in their communication portal, except that the teacher has additional capability to create or modify curriculum content and track the student's performance. The introduction of a virtual learning environment to educational learning changes the way a student tackles his or her course of study. Data compiled from a virtual learning setup has its share of imperfections, but at the same time it provides an easily available albeit rudimentary, measure of a student's learning activity.
Although a virtual learning environment supports flexible study, many academics are also concerned that they may foster a belief in students that they are not that closely being monitored due to the physical absence of a tutor or professor. Such a student may become disengaged towards study, failing to actively participate in academic life. This interferes with the traditional learning that they will still receive as part of their curriculum requirements because students may believe that learning or coursework can be deferred to some vague future date.
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