The virtual university: Advantages and disadvantages

In today's world everything is changing rapidly and development of technology and information has changed many existing facilities in the cultural, social, political and economic fields. Therefore, education like other changes in society and expectations that a society has from its people must change in an appropriate and acceptable way. Distance learning system (electronic) is a new approach and solution for institutions that want to move toward technology in order to change teaching methods and their environments. This system makes it possible to achieve modern education methods in an exhaustive and best way. In the virtual education, all systems, activities and policies must be designed in support of the feature of interaction between students and educational materials and courses. The authors of this paper try to understand the concepts, characteristics and definition of a virtual university to find the strengths and weaknesses of virtual universities and realize the solutions for the weak points.