UNIVERSITY

eCampus Online University is a technological educational environment designed by a group of specialists in pedagogy, didactics, teaching and learning technologies, learning research and issues regarding the reform of scholastic institutions who have decided to apply the skills they have in various university teaching contexts, in the letter and in spirit of article 3 of the Interministerial Decree of 17th April 2003. Besides providing a general definition of distance-learning, the decree emphasizes how the new ICT technologies give an essential contribution to didactic and educational creativity by introducing significant changes into the teaching-learning system in terms of both the educational offering and its use and distribution throughout the country. The new legal framework is especially stimulating for those who, for some time, have been dealing with didactic innovation applied to the demand for instruction and education expressed by young people and the world of work and the idea of founding a university was translated into the project that is presented here.

The entire structure of eCampus University rests on a complex technological system that manages personnel, structures and processes, providing integrated governance of the teaching, management and administrative functions.

The academic Virtual Learning Environment is a virtual space created and developed to manage distance teaching and learning, capable of integrating all the functions that new technologies offer. Designed to enable distance learning content delivery, the university's VLE is a software platform consisting of a set of web-applications that allow the student to access a heterogeneous set of digital tools for teaching and training. In addition to the implementation of lessons, through the VLE the students will participate in labs and webinairs directly at home and interact directly with professors and tutors, as well as with the administration offices. eCampus provides a single platform to answer all the educational needs of the students.

This e-learning system is not only an IT tool for professors and students, but also provides effective methodologies and techniques to both professors and students so that they can interact in terms of effectiveness, high scientific quality, as well as time and cost-effectiveness.

The academic VLE It is a technological system that is not only functional to the needs of its various recipients (educational, administrative, etc.), but also to the organisation and operation of eCampus University in terms of the traceability of the subjects that interact (students, teachers, tutors and administration), the management and evaluation of educational activities and materials, and the production of instructional materials. It is a scalable system in the sense that its data processing and storage capacity can grow with the growth of the student population and services. The architecture and the operational organisation of the services are designed to ensure the maximum reliability and continuity of services.