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International audience; This roundtable reports on the work of a European Commission DG Education and Culture cofinanced project "PBP-VC Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses" which is aimed at providing a deeper understanding of the key issues and success factors underlying the implementation of virtual campuses. A tentative model of issues underpinning best practice in virtual campuses which covers organisational, pedagogical, technological and student-related issues derived from an investigation into existing EACEA co-financed virtual campus initiatives within Europe will be outlined. The project is working towards developing a practical framework to help guide the process of creating best practice in virtual campuses, as well as raising awareness of issues and approaches to creating sustainable virtual campuses.

International audience; The Virtual Campus for a Sustainable Europe is a network of European universities experienced in e-learning and education for sustainable development who believe in the wealth of opportunities for learners and teachers engaged in e-learning across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. The VCSE shares high quality, inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary e-courses on sustainability issues for university students.

International audience; The paper presents the results of the analysis of the difficulties evidenced by the students while approaching some scientific disciplines (the ones the author has been teaching or involved with) and shows various kinds of these problems usually known as preconceptions, misconceptions or mental schemes in students' learning. The work describes then the strategies adopted to help students in overcoming their difficulties by using specific strategies built up with the help of the constructivistic paradigm. It analyzes soon after the experiences made by the author while using Web techniques to support his teaching activity and proposes the model of a special Web site where e-commerce techniques have been adopted. The paper ends with the description of the monitoring process of students' knowledge one can carry out with the above site by using the Data Base it's interfaced with and gives an outline of the possible knowledge paradigms this instrument leads to.

International audience; Interactively explore issues relating to key success factors, best practices within context of e-learning and virtual campuses. Introduce models and a framework aimed at identifying and promoting best practice. Hearing about and learning from your own experiences and work, and getting feedback and comments to issues explored in workshop.

International audience; This roundtable reports on the work of a European Commission DG Education and Culture cofinanced project "PBP-VC Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses" which is aimed at providing a deeper understanding of the key issues and success factors underlying the implementation of virtual campuses. A tentative model of issues underpinning best practice in virtual campuses which covers organisational, pedagogical, technological and student-related issues derived from an investigation into existing EACEA co- financed virtual campus initiatives within Europe will be outlined. The project is working towards developing a practical framework to help guide the process of creating best practice in virtual campuses, as well as raising awareness of issues and approaches to creating sustainable virtual campuses.

International audience; This roundtable reports on the work of a European Commission DG Education and Culture cofinanced project "PBP-VC Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses" which is aimed at providing a deeper understanding of the key issues and success factors underlying the implementation of virtual campuses. A tentative model of issues underpinning best practice in virtual campuses which covers organisational, pedagogical, technological and student-related issues derived from an investigation into existing EACEA co-financed virtual campus initiatives within Europe will be outlined. The project is working towards developing a practical framework to help guide the process of creating best practice in virtual campuses, as well as raising awareness of issues and approaches to creating sustainable virtual campuses.

International audience; Despite a significant growth in the development of virtual campuses (VCs) across the EU in recent years, the findings from a European Commission DG Education and Culture workshop in 2005 on VCs highlighted a number of concerns relating to VC projects and initiatives across the EU. It was felt that many VCs suffered from a low profile resulting in little support at senior levels, thus hampering their development, as well as having very little contact and interoperability with each other. If eLearning and VC initiatives are to be sustainable within the European Union, then it is vital that stakeholders understand how new models of teaching and learning transform the institution and how they can be used to enhance the flexibility and inclusiveness of the European education system. This paper reports on the work of a European Commission DG Education and Culture co-financed project PBP-VC Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses which is aimed at providing a deeper understanding of the key issues and critical success factors underlying the implementation of VCs. The paper will outline a tentative model of issues underpinning best practice in VCs derived from an initial literature based investigation of existing VC initiatives within Europe. In addition, the project is working towards developing a practical framework to help guide the process of creating best practice in VCs, as well as raising awareness of issues and approaches to creating sustainable VCs.

International audience; Despite a significant growth in the development of virtual campuses (VCs) across the EU in recent years, the findings from a European Commission DG Education and Culture workshop in 2005 on VCs highlighted a number of concerns relating to VC projects and initiatives across the EU. It was felt that many VCs suffered from a low profile resulting in little support at senior levels, thus hampering their development, as well as having very little contact and interoperability with each other. If eLearning and VC initiatives are to be sustainable within the European Union, then it is vital that stakeholders understand how new models of teaching and learning transform the institution and how they can be used to enhance the flexibility and inclusiveness of the European education system. This paper reports on the work of a European Commission DG Education and Culture co-financed project PBP-VC Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses which is aimed at providing a deeper understanding of the key issues and critical success factors underlying the implementation of VCs. The paper will outline a tentative model of issues underpinning best practice in VCs derived from an initial literature based investigation of existing VC initiatives within Europe. In addition, the project is working towards developing a practical framework to help guide the process of creating best practice in VCs, as well as raising awareness of issues and approaches to creating sustainable VCs.

International audience; It is a 2 year EACEA co-financed project (March 2007 -February 2009) It aims at providing a deeper understanding of key issues and critical success factors underlying implementation of Virtual Campuses (VCs)