Utilization a courseware WEB portal for virtual university requirements
Pavel Smutný, Lubomír Smutný, Radim Farana, J. Smutná · 2008
Paper deals with the convergence of the Internet technologies and education, which create Internet-enabled learning. New challenge University eliminates barriers of time, distance, and socioeconomic status, allowing people to take charge of their own lifelong learning. Paper shows a special vertical portal for virtual university support as a site with comprehensive content from the area of automation and applied informatics and links to other web sites, built around a single topic. Virtual technologies connected with these new trends will cover topics as the shared collaborative learning environment architectures, WEB portals for actual hot links to the main information sources including links to the intranet/internet virtual laboratories, mobile learning systems (m-Learning) dealing with mobile users, wireless systems, mobile devices and location awareness etc. The specialized portal e-Automation (see http://www.e-automatizace.cz) will be shown as an example of virtual technologies with WEB solution for virtual university purposes.