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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Transactions ID Number: 28-888
Full Name: Diana Bri
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Age: ON
Sex: Female
Address: Camino Vera s/n
Country: SPAIN
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Title of the Paper: A Study of Virtual Learning Environments
Authors as they appear in the Paper: DIANA BRI, MIGUEL GARCÍA, HUGO COLL, JAIME LLORET
Email addresses of all the authors: diabrmo@posgrado.upv.es,migarpi@posgrado.upv.es,hucolfer@posgrado.upv.es,jlloret@dcom.upv.es
Number of paper pages: 11
Abstract: This paper analyzes several features of virtual learning environments. These tools are basic for new models of education because their basic idea is to reduce the number of hours face-to-face in the classroom and to promote remote individual work. This is the main purpose of the new European models given by the Bologna process. Four studies have been made. First of them, shows level of popularity of each environment according number of entrances in two web searchers. From this previous study, we have chosen the most popular environments and we will give the details of their features and main differences between them. We are going analyze existing environments to create online learning communities and so, promoting online learning. Next, we will show a study this type of educational social software. This study involves a questionnaire to some lecturers of our university, Polytechnic University of Valencia. Our analysis presents most important results. Then, we have !
studied the virtual learning environments used in the Spanish universities. It will show us which of them are more used in Spain. Finally in the last part of the paper, we will show a performance evaluation of the two main environments.
Keywords: LMS, e-learning, Virtual learning environment, educational environments, LCMS, CMS
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Special (Invited) Session: Analysis and Comparative of Virtual Learning Environments
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