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A Suggested System for Virtual University in Egypt: A Future Study
Abstract Category: Engineering
Course / Degree: Ph.D
Institution / University: Helwan University, Egypt
Published in: 2006
Introduction:
Over the recent years, we have witnessed the embarking development and using the internet in the education, and there were many courses and programs that provided online. The internet helped to facilitate the education by regardless the boundary of time and place. Many universities and organization of higher education began to develop their courses and provide it on the web.
Virtual universities is one of the applications that using internet in higher education, it provide various educational opportunities for students, deliver courses, develop educational materials, provide support and services and provide consultation and advice using information and communication technology.
As a respond to the increasing demand on higher education and also the changed requirements for higher education and lifelong learning, virtual universities had appeared in each developed and developing countries.
Virtual universities are organizations which act its activities and connect the providers on the internet. Virtual universities is very important because it provide the flexibility for the educational environment, providing training opportunities in different fields of knowledge, increasing learning resources and reduce the educational time.
The virtual universities enable faculty members to deliver curriculum, assessment, discussions in synchronous collaborative work, and multimedia and interactive resource development. It enable faculty to examine the students online and know the difficulty of the content as well as the individual students’ effort. The Egyptian Universities work to benefit from the information and communication technology so there is increasing importance to use the internet in education in Egypt. The ministry of higher education began five major projects related to ICT such as the project of Development the E-learning systems.
Nowadays, the virtual universities are considered as a phenomena so, many countries created virtual universities, such as African Virtual University, University of Industry, Kentucky Virtual University and Abd Al Razak Tun University.
The research problem:
There is many defects and weakness in the higher education in Egypt. There is a need to expand it, specially with the increasing demand on higher education. Although, there is open education in Egypt, there is many problems related to it such as the small number of the universities that provide open education and the lake of using multimedia. So, the main research question is :
How can we put a suggested view for a virtual university in Egypt?
Research Objective:
The main objective of this research is to create a suggested view for virtual university in Egypt. This objective is threefold:
- Study the present status of the distance education in Egypt.
- Study the systems of virtual universities in some foreign countries.
- Study the future expectation for the suggested view for a virtual university in Egypt.
Research Significance:
This research help in providing a suggested system for a virtual university in Egypt, so it will help in the following:
1- Development the higher education in Egypt by providing a new type of education based on information and communication technology.
2- Helping in utilizing internet in the higher education and providing various educational opportunities in Egypt.
3- Benefit from the foreign experiences in the field of the virtual universities to create Egyptian virtual university.
Research Methodology:
The research has followed the comparative methodology to describe, and analyze the Distance Education and E-learning in Egypt, and the virtual universities in the foreign in the light of its communities circumstances. The research used the following:
- The SWOT Analysis to study Distance education in Egypt.
- Some steps of the System Analysis Approach to study the systems of the virtual universities in the foreign counties.
- The scenario as a method of the future studies to create the suggested view of the virtual university.
Research limitation:
The research studied the systems of virtual universities in sbu-saharan Africa, United Kingdom, United States and Malaysia, because they have a successful experiences in the filed of virtual universities.
Research Content:
The research include five chapters as the following:
Chapter One : The general framework
Chapter Two : The virtual universities, theoretical framework.
Chapter Three : The Independent virtual universities in foreign countries.
Chapter Four : The participating virtual universities in foreign countries.
Chapter Five : The suggested view for a virtual university in Egypt.
Thesis Keywords/Search Tags:
virtual universities, E-learning, online education, virtual universities in malaysia, virtual university in USA, Virtual university in UK
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Submission Details: Thesis Abstract submitted by Reem Ali Derbala from Egypt on 03-Mar-2009 03:22.
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