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== 7.2. Recommendations for other virtual campuses ==

'''The VCSE organisational model'''  

The open, flexible and bottom-up VCSE-model is highly recommended as a sustainable model for any virtual campus. Its viability is assured not by official top-down agreements among highly-positioned administrators, but, instead, by loose bottom-up agreements between scientific experts and university departments regarding the exchange of students, courses, expertise and know-how on e-learning for sustainable development. It is an “alternative” virtual campus model based on the subsidiarity principle, most suitable for the creation of local/regional e-learning networks for sustainable development involving all relevant actors (academic institutes, local/regional authorities, decision-makers and other stakeholders).  

The open source VCSE web portal (Typo3) and e-learning platform (Moodle) present an excellent example of low-cost, easily adaptable and reproducible internal communication and e-learning platform for virtual campuses’ scientific experts, academic staff and students.

<br> '''The VCSE enlargement strategy and the promotion of the VCSE model'''

The Central Demonstration Workshops addressed to potential new members, offering a “hands-on demonstration” of the actual operation of the Virtual Campus proved to be a valuable promotional tool. Their effectiveness and efficiency can be further enhanced by tailor-made “on-site” demonstration workshops addressing the specific needs of relevant target–groups (academic staff or decision-makers) and by free-trials and supportive promotional audiovisual material (e.g. “virtual tours” of e-courses). [http://nba.com nba.com]