QUESTIONNAIRE FOR POSITIONING THE OWN VIRTUAL CAMPUS

Before responding to this questionnaire, it is recommended to read the joint document about the typology of virtual campuses, as this will provide the information needed for understanding the concepts that are used in the questionnaire.

Most questions can be responded by ticking the appropriate box. If more than one alternative can be chosen, you will explicitly be invited to do so; otherwise it is the intention to choose only one alternative.

  1. institutional basis and mission

status of your organisation

public private mixed

legal status of your organisation

for profit non profit

format of your organisation

mono-mode dual mode networked virtual campus

priorities leading its mission statement

social/access priorities economic priorities


  1. scope of the offer


how long does your virtual campus exist ?

less than 2 y 2-4 y 4-8 y more than 8 y

what is the nature of its offer?

the virtual campus encompasses
the full university a group of subjects/schools only subject

if you responded to one of the first two possibilities, you can evaluate the nature of the offer, by naming the subjects/schools in the corresponding box

subjects/schools in an embryonic stage:



subjects/schools in an established stage:

subjects/schools in an mature stage:




  1. deployed activities

tick all relevant boxes:

provision of education in a virtual environment

provision of training in a virtual environment

collaboration between researchers through virtual environments

contribution to a "learning between researchers using virtual environments

knowledge transfer to society at large, using virtual environments

scientific subservience to using virtual environments

virtual university: including student and staff administration, and eventually examination and creditation


  1. scale of the partnership

dedicated institution (no partnership with other institutions)

local/regional partnership

national partnership

transnational partnership


  1. partnership organisation of the virtual campus

It is possible to tick more than one box, according to the functions that are taken up by the virtual campus:

provision of online catalogues allowing for "one-stop shopping"

forum function: joint course and materials development, virtual student mobility (including joint learner support)

university function: collective venture of institutions


  1. audience

absolute size of the learners and spread over age and gender groups
open audience or closed audience
classic academic (undergraduate students, graduate/post-graduate students, ph.d. students)
      and professional audience (continuing education) or non academic and non professional audience
     (in the framework of lifelong learning)
on-campus students or off-campus students
teachers, trainers and other mediators of the learning process


  1. virtual teaching and learning scenarios

Situate the nature of the main virtual teaching and learning scenarios that are used in your institution in the grid. You can indicate a quadrant, or draw an ellipse (of which the form indicates the emphasis that is laid on the relevant dimensions for the scenarios of the grid)



The four quadrants represent each a teaching-learning paradigm:

teacher-controlled, specified learning activities (NW quadrant)
teacher-controlled, open-ended or strategic learning (SW quadrant)
learner-managed specified learning activities (NE quadrant)
learner-managed open-ended or strategic learning (SE quadrant)


  1. Further characteristics of your virtual campus

Please, use the textarea below to further characterise your virtual campus if you feel the need for providing some additional points, which were either not questioned or to which the available response categories did not respond




  1. Contact Details:
Name of Organisation:
 		Name of Contact Person:
Tel.:
 		E-mail:
Postal Address: