The advent of the World Wide Web and the advancement of sophisticated computer software and hardware have created a surging online learning industry. The vision of students collecting certificates or degrees without ever setting foot in a classroom has captured the imagination of education entrepreneurs.

New conceptions of a 'virtual campus, competitions for the most 'wired campus', and a resurgence of interest in 'distance education' reflect some of the many calls for change in higher education and learning. They are being heard around the world and manifested in experiments and strategic plans of private industry, educational institutions, and national administrations.

Vision & Mission

The IV Campus aims to assist progressive organizations to meet their training and education needs through online learning.

The mission of the IV Campus is to become quality online education and content development service provider. Offering numerous courses in different disciplines of its own and with partner organizations, the IV Campus is a hybrid model that will help students bring together online and site-based classes, independent studies, mentoring, learning teams, and experiential learning from many providers in different modes of delivery into a cohesive whole

and strives to:

1. work in partnership with organizations to provide professional development, support and training so that they can take full advantage of the Internet to meet their training and education needs;
2. work smartly and efficiently with and for our customers, using appropriate technological solutions, to keep our costs low and our standards high; 
3. Constantly monitor the changing needs of organizations, and the technological developments taking place in e-learning, in order to provide our partner organizations with the appropriate online training solutions for their particular needs.

Values

We are committed to:

1. achieving real social and educational benefits through online learning;
2. developing Internet resources that are accessible to all regardless of disability, technology or circumstance; 
3. avoiding any association with companies and organizations whose activities are socially divisive or environmentally harmful; 
4. respecting the beliefs, desires and aims of all our clients and partners, irrespective of age, ethnicity, gender, sexuality or disability; 
5. ethical, honest and straightforward relationships with organizations whose values we share; 
6. Environmentally-friendly working practices, wherever possible using Internet technologies for closes and detailed communication with our clients to keep us off the roads and on the case.

Objectives in General

1. Realistic e-Learning & Corporate Learning Strategies
2. Extending Learning to Customer Learning
3. Aligning Learning to the Business Drivers
4. Integration of Learning and Business Processes
5. Making Learning Management Systems WORK for the Organization & Learner
6. Creating More COMPELLING e-Learning Content
7. Developing New Models for Inviting Learners to e-Learning Activities
8. Supporting Communities of Learning & Practice
9. Pulling Multiple Learning Systems Together Across the Enterprise
10. Retooling Current Learning Professionals
11. Designing True Blended Learning Models
12. Taking Learning Global: Multi-Country e-Learning

The Project

The IV Campus questions traditional assumptions about higher education, unbundling faculty roles and challenging the need for residency in credentialing. Still credit-based, the IV Campus will use this only as a starting point in a pragmatic approach to individualized lifelong learning and workforce development.

This new paradigm of learning is based on a streamlined structure that effectively leverages inexpensive web technology, doing away with much of the infrastructure associated with educational institutions. Student services, human resources, library access, and scholarships will be outsourced to private and public institutions and vendors. The IV Campus does not compete for country funding, instead taking an entrepreneurial approach. Like a business start-up, it will grow only as enrollments, relying on public/private partnerships and a variety of revenue streams. Tuition and fees are disaggregated, with students paying only for what they want and get in services, cutting out hidden subsidies.

The IV Campus is a multi-country wide, not institution-centered, initiative; thereby promoting collaboration - not competition. Rather, all institutions stand to benefit through increased enrollments generated by IV Campus students. Institutions that are landlocked in enrollment, with no room to grow except through additional budget or tuition increases, the IV Campus will provide a way to efficiently bridge scarce resources across the Commonwealth. It will do what no one institution or collaboration has been able to do, in part because of rivalry and issues of resource allocation.

Many new virtual campuses efforts fail because they try to do too much. Cost studies show that the economy of scale needed for building online programs is very high. The IV Campus has a limited but critical mission and will increase revenues and decrease costs per student FTE at other institutions through partnerships and outsourcing that promote best practices. With the unmet demand of enrollment projections, the need for continuous training in a knowledge economy, increasing numbers of non-traditional students, the problems of underserved populations, and the overcrowding of bricks and mortar facilities, World needs a new paradigm for learning – the IV Campus.

The IV Campus aims at implementing and institutionalizing the emerging possibilities of constructivism based E-Learning to support balanced country development. An increasing share of companies and institutions in region is part of the knowledge-driven economy. Employees and non-traditional students need to be endowed with academic knowledge, which has to be updated consistently during the working life.

Learning via Internet is the key to meet this challenge. Online education enhances the accessibility to academic education and professional training. The people can integrate better learning activities into working life and they can be provided with learning content more independent of the presence of educational institutions in their surroundings. This opens new possibilities to a more equal supply of initiating region with academic education via Internet to support the development of balanced regions. This becomes even more relevant in the course of the transformation to information society and knowledge-driven economy, which requires even more up-to-date knowledge. E-Learning offers should adopt the regional structures and needs, offer the learners to finalize their single learning activities with an internationally recognized Bachelor, Master or PhD degrees.

The IV Campus specifically aims

1. to be a key player in the rapidly developing multilingual and multicultural market for digital media used in higher education, further education and professional training (E-Learning),   
2. to design, produce and distribute high-quality E-Content  products and services (internationalization), which are easily accessible and adapt them rapidly to the requirements of the target markets (localization),    
3. to pool resources and share and specialize the expertise available in order to achieve a higher quality of education and training,    
4. to experience the educational mix for future professional needs