Recent Development in Virtual Higher Education Towards Advanced and Proven Information Technology

Higher education programs on the Internet make it possible to utilize advanced information and communication technology mainly at distance education. Research in this area is aimed at application of proven methodologies from information technology. One of these methodologies is model description of objects and processes about them. Basically, higher education programs fit well to model description. However, high number of highly interrelated objects must be handled and objects are local program, subject area, geographic, industry, university, and student group specific. Description is needed that can cope with this task. A modeling has been published recently that drew the attention of the authors of this paper. They analyzed that modeling considering predefined demands by practical application. This paper gives an evaluation of a recent approach to virtual higher education environments. Following this, the proposed modeling is evaluated from the point of view of description of real world cases in distance education of engineers. Finally, a possible implementation of the proposed modeling within the organization of higher education Internet portals is analyzed.