A Virtual University Model for Higher Education in Saudi Arabia

The new developments in information technology such as the Internet and related technologies present higher education institutions with magnificent opportunities to contain the rapidly increasing cost and expand their geographical reach by flexible means. The Internet opens a new revolutionary era through sophisticated tools which can be utilized to disseminate global information and allow free access to unlimited resources for mankind's knowledge. All together, this will facilitate the distribution of learning to learners in diverse environments. This book, therefore, analyze existing virtual university models and utilized Soft System Methodology (SSM) to proposed a joint venture virtual university model. The model should be useful in initiating a Virtual University in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.