Challenges and opportunities in virtual and electronic learning environments

Abstract

The influence of accelerated technical and economic progress in the ICT (Informational and Communicational Technologies) supported world of atypical teaching and learning methods, as well as the learning environments, has been rapidly developing recently. At the same time, students' roles and their characteristic way of life can mainly be followed by different controlling and assessing systems. The author has brought ICT-based methodic opportunities and technical supports that are inherited in electronic learning environment into focus in this study, considering the solutions employed for the conveying, practising and controlling of new information and knowledge. In the era of educational systems, which seem to be reformed on a daily basis, besides educational and teaching functions, one should pay increasing attention to the results of students and graduates. The reason is that this determines the opportunities they will have to continue their studies or their chances of establishing themselves in a job. The results obtained are naturally not only issue in the learning environment or teaching methods, but they can firmly be influenced by numerous different factors like learning habits, ways of learning, and attitudes.