Template:Virtual Learning Environments/Objectives

Vision

The Vision of the 'Virtual School' Program of the Noolaham Foundation is to create open, free, accessible, self-organizing virtual learning environments for the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking students and educators.

Objectives

The aim of the project is to create open, free, accessible, self-organizing virtual learning environments for the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking to students and educators. The project will be divided into several phases each phase building on the previous and reaching out to more people. The technical complexity, capability and costs will also increase.

The first phase of the project is to immediately bring mostly text based educational resources to online and make it accessible to students. This phase involves an outreach and engagement phase to inform the students of how to use the resources.

The second phase is to build a more comprehensive virtual learning environment or classroom. Students will be able to supplement or completely learn courses online. Video lectures, self – assessment tools, collaboration tools and online based educational tools such as simulations are some key features of such a learning environment.

The third phase is to build a robust self-sustaining online social learning community where student to student, student to teacher, teacher to teacher interactions will happen seamlessly. The diaspora can co-learn and collaborate with students and teachers in Sri Lanka.