Singapore, 12 May 2003

Manage Your Busy Lifestyle with Real-Time Education through Informatics Executive Virtual Campus

Fancy attending ‘live’ lectures and interacting with your lecturer, not in a physical classroom environment but online? Going beyond solely traditional taught-classes boundary, Informatics offers an Executive Virtual Campus (EVC), an online learning environment tailored for lifelong learners and busy working executives with time challenges in having to manage personal and professional commitment with the attention required in academic study, an excellent platform to learn and network via both classroom and online mode.

The Executive Virtual Campus (EVC), administered by Purpletrain.com, the e-learning service provider of Informatics, incorporates latest technologies like voice-over IP, multi-party collaboration and knowledge management to allow for fully interactive ‘live’ lectures to be conducted online. This platform is excellent for learners who are not only geographically dispersed to minimize traveling time to classes, but for working adults who find time challenges in work and family with study.

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The 5Cs of EVC features

Convenience
- Study in the comfort of your home with less traveling required that allows for more time for study, work and family commitment

- Access learning facilities 24 hours x 7 days a week anytime, anywhere

Capacity
- Enjoy multimedia live online lectures

- Access tutorial materials to aid in revision or pre-class preparation

Capability
- Get connected to a larger online community to address academic issues

- Empowered to give comments and receive prompt feedback

Contributions
- Grow with the community through evolving knowledge base

- Sharing of ideas and expertise among students and lecturers

Commitment
- Provide convenient academic learning environment to support your commitment towards Life long value of learning

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The benefits lifelong learners get to enjoy include:
1. Receive continuing education in the comfort of learners’ homes without having to physically travel to class to attend all the face-to-face taught classes

2. Fully interactive ‘live’ online lectures will be conducted which permits two way interactions between students and lecturer/co-presenters with full multimedia broadcast capabilities

3. Geographically dispersed and time-strapped learners who find time challenges in work and family competing head-on with the discipline and commitment in studying

4. Enjoy the best of both worlds: Face-to-face contact with teaching staff and seamless support from Informatics centres and 24 hrs by 7 days access to Purpletrain.com online resources anytime anywhere

“As a busy working professional, being able to log onto EVC for ‘live’ lectures and not have to travel to classes for every single lesson is a breeze for me as I can now better manage my family and work commitments yet not compromise on my study,” said Joann Tan, a current part-time Informatics student.

Informatics Executive Virtual Campus offers you Real-Time Education for better time management of your busy lifestyle. Make that a reality today.

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