Guiding Principles for Identifying and Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses

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Author(s): Mark Stansfield (University of the West of Scotland, UK)and Thomas Connolly (University of the West of Scotland, UK)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 16
Source title: Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mark Stansfield (University of the West of Scotland, UK)and Thomas Connolly (University of the West of Scotland, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-358-6.ch010

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Virtual Learning Environments

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This chapter will outline a set of guiding principles underpinning key issues in the promotion of best practice in virtual campuses. The work was conducted as part of the “Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses” (PBP-VC) project that is aimed at identifying underlying issues and examples of best practice in providing a better understanding into virtual campus development and sustainability. The PBP-VC project was a two year European Commission Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) co-financed project running from March 2007 to February 2009. The PBP-VC project team have worked with key stakeholders from virtual campus projects across Europe and globally in identifying and exploring key issues relating to best practice. The importance of developing a practical set of guiding principles for identifying, evaluating and promoting best practice in virtual campuses and e-learning can be demonstrated by the significant number of high profile e-learning and virtual campus failures that have occurred over the last decade both within Europe and globally at great financial cost. This chapter will highlight key enablers and inhibitors to success, provide a description of the different elements comprising the guiding principles in the promotion of best practice, as well as describing a tentative four level model aimed at illustrating different levels of virtual campus maturity in the achievement of sustainability and organisational transformation.

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