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Canadian Virtual University - Membership information

cvu offers benefits to member universities and to their students

In the spring of 2000, six Canadian universities formed a consortium called Canadian Virtual University-Université virtuelle canadienne (CVU-UVC)--Canada's first national university consortium of accredited online and distance education providers.

CVU was created to:


  1. Serve Canadian universities that are committed to the core principles:
     
    • offering quality online and distance programs
    • easing transfer of credit among Canadian universities, achieved in part through the waiving of certain fees for visiting students
    • providing learners with as many options as possible when it comes to what, where, when, and how to take a complete university-level program without having to enter a classroom
    • collaborating with other members to develop new online and distance programs
    • accepting each other's courses for transfer credit where they meet program requirements
  2. Establish a Canadian presence in the growing international market for distance and online education at the university level.

Canadian Virtual University is incorporated under the Canada Business Act and operates on a nonprofit basis.

CVU members are Canadian universities chartered under provincial legislation, and they all belong to the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC).

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Benefits of membership

  1. Inclusion on the CVU website and in joint marketing initiatives, resulting in increased national and international visibility for your programs, courses, and university
  2. Advantages for your students:
     
    • greater course selection to complete their program with you
    • cost savings when they take courses from partner universities. Students who are admitted at one CVU university do not pay admission fees when they take courses at other CVU universities.
  3. Opportunities to shape the future of this new entity through your participation on the Advisory Committee and on the Board of Directors
  4. Opportunities to collaborate with other universities to create new distance programs to reach new markets
  5. Sharing of expertise within a national community committed to quality and access in online and distance learning
  6. Create and offer new distance programs by using distance courses from the CVU catalogue.

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How to become a Member

 

CVU invites any member of AUCC that offers complete programs online or through distance education and that is committed to CVU's core principles to join us.

You may use courses from the CVU catalogue to offer your own program completely through distance education. For more information on using CVU courses to offer your own program, please call (780) 421-2540.

If you would like to learn more about CVU, please see:

 

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