Virtual Campus

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Presented by SamSupervised by Prof. Michael Lyu
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Outline

• What is Virtual Campus?
• Changing Trend of Learning Style
• New Learning Process
• Basic Architecture
• Components of Virtual Campus
• Future Work
• Conclusion

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What is Virtual Campus?

• Ideal study environment for the life-long
  learners
• Providing
• up-to-date demanding learning materials
• personal study guide
• Students can customize their study in own pace

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Whats in Virtual Campus?

• Student
• fully engage in the learning process through an
  interactive, dynamic environment
• study personal scheduled on-line materials
• accomplish group project and discussion
• seek help/advice from instructors

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Whats in Virtual Campus?

• Instructor
• Delivery the lectures as usual, BUT through the
  WWW (Internet) to access students
• Answer the questions from students in real-time
  mode (just like in traditional classroom) OR
  non-real mode (by email or notice broad)
• provide a channel for personal communication with
  students (collaboration - just like tutorial)

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Whats in Virtual Campus?

• Learning material provider
• shorten the distance with students
• gather the demanding materials
• Personal scheduler
• consultant/counseller for each student
• re-arrange the order of the course material
  according to each students pace

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Changing Trend of Learning Style
Educational Focus
Student-centered
teacher-centered
Teaching approach
Students monotonously
Lecturing monotonously
Learning Style
Active and collaborative learning
Passive learning
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New Learning Process

• Customized learning strategy

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New Learning Process (cont)

• Changed behavior of roles

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New Learning Process (cont)

• Relationship between demand and supply

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Basic Architecture
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Components of Virtual Campus

• MWPS (Multimedia Web Presentation System)

• Construction
• Editing
• Management

Web-based presentation
HTML slides
Streaming audio and video
Synchronous
Asynchronous
Delivery of lessons
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Outlook of MWPS
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Outlook of MWPS (cont)
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Outlook of MWPS (cont)
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Outlook of MWPS (cont)
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Components of Virtual Campus

• JCE (Java Collaborative Environment)

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Future Works

• Building a integrated Virtual Campus with a
  user-friendly interface
• Implementing the component of customized
  re-scheduler, by adding pointers to course
  material and stored in learners personal
  profile
• Providing the status of log-on people, which
  enables others know who are available
• Hacking the source codes of MWPS and JCE in order
  to optimal the facilities of Virtual Campus

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Conclusion

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

Interactive, dynamic, active feedback studying
environment
Virtual Campus
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QA
Thank you
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Traditional Learning Environment

• teaching materials are planned in a non-dynamic
  order
• instructors/teachers have to select the teaching
  materials beforehand
• After preparation, instructors/teachers present
  the material to students at the same time and
  they receive responses and queries from the
  students

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Traditional Learning Environment

• a class of small size (20-40 people)
• hard to handle all those questions immediately
  when the course is running. In these situations,
  most students just sit in class passively, and
  some may even be tuned out

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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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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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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