E-university lecture delivery model: From classroom to virtual

The failure of the UK government in setting up the first e-university in the early 2000 is attributed to several reasons including poor business models, branding, disruptive technologies, lack of organizational structure that accommodates such challenges, and failure to integrate a blended approach. Key to this failure is the lecture/lesson delivery model whereby e-university lesson models did not adapt much of the original classroom model of teaching with that of the virtual environment. A key obstacle is believed to be the lack of technologies of the time to support such processes. The conditions have since changed and are set to continue to change. This paper looks at academic research, technological innovations, employs process analysis, and reflective analysis to provide a lecture/lesson delivery model for the next generations of e-universities. The aim is to find to what extend current online lecture/lesson deliveries have evolved. In this process, the team reviews the case study of a UK e-university using Adobe Connect learning model that mirrors much of the physical processes of lecture/lesson delivery. Using Riva model, the paper compares the physical with the virtual model of lesson/lecture delivery processes. The paper concludes that this key process has shown promising results but there remain some challenges for e-university processes to overcome.