VirTual LeArNinG Vs EleCtroNic

ViRtual LeArning:

• is a software systems designed to support teaching and learning in educational settings.
• VLE will normally work over the internet and provide a collection of tools such as those for assessment, communication uploading of content return of students work, peer assessment, administration, of student groups, collecting and organizing student grades questionnaire.
• VLE are helping to make sure that their learning is not confined to a particular building or restricted to any single location or moment.
• VLE be used to refer to the components in which learners and tutors participitiate in "on line" interaction of various kinds including on line learning

Characteristic of Virtual Learning:

• a physical learning environment generally integrates courses resources, formal communication and informal communication and an administration.
• a virtual learning environment integrates a variety of tools supporting multiple functions information, communication collaboration,learning and management.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_learning_environment)

Electronic Learning

• E-learning is a term that encompass all forms of technology enhanced learning (TEL)
• The term e-learning is ambiguous to those outside the e-learning industry and even within its diverse discipline it has a different meanings to different people.