Virtual universities: a critical approach

The rapid development of educational technologies. combined with the Internet boom at a worldwide level, gives rise to favorable conditions for the establishment of a new model of university training. The first part of this work gives a description of the major components of the new virtual university. The second part attempts a critical approach of the sense of virtual university from a social and a philosophical point of view. The focal point of this work is the danger of having a sweeping uniformity among university departments all over the world, together with the necessity to prevent university institutes from becoming units of providing distance learning material in package form.