VIRTUAL CAMPUS: NEW TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION EXAMPLE IN THE DISTANCE LEARNING

The introduction of New Technologies in educational environments has promoted a real revolution. Virtual Campus involves a set of features that makes possible the interaction among different collectivities that belong to the University, but spatial and time independent. Virtual Campus project has been the continuance of a European Commision 4th Framework Programme project called DEMOS, which was born as UNED initiative in 1996. Virtual Campus integrates an educational environment where cooperation among teachers, tutors, experts and student is carried out in a very flexible way through multimedia tools