Using Open Education Tools for a Higher Education Virtual Campus

Abstract

Current research proves that using a virtual campus as a learning management system (LMS) can increase the students' sense of community and enhance student performance, all the while LMSs have become a main component of how traditional teaching universities interact online with their students. We developed our university virtual campus CVUPT continuously since 2008, based on new technological developments but also on new Open Education Tools. Since our university is a research-oriented university, we used data to inform and guide an LMS review and strategic development process. This paper analyzes the use of this Moodle based virtual campus by a traditional university and how the implementation of different Web 2.0 technologies as open education tools have affected students-teacher interaction.