Virtual Learning Environment

Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is a learning environment used in the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes of the Jamk IT Institute for practical exercises. The VLE environment integrates with the rest of the IT Institute's teaching environment, and the VLE environment is constantly being developed and updated to meet teaching needs.

As a dedicated cloud service, the VLE environment provides IT Institute students with modern and extensive learning environments in the areas of data analytics, computer networks, IT systems, application development and cybersecurity. Virtual servers, workstations, networks, routers and security solutions enable the construction and exploration of work-like environments. VLE uses a wide range of commercial products (e.g. telecommunications equipment and cybersecurity technologies) as well as freely available solutions to implement realistic organizational and IT infrastructures and IT environments.

VLE enables course-specific laboratory and practice environments for students to study different subjects independently of time and place. With VLE, studying does not just remain at the level of theory, but students get to apply what they have learned in practice. VLE enables students to practice the techniques used in companies, which helps to understand how different techniques are related and interdependent.

The VLE environment models both public Internet services and systems within corporate networks in miniature. The environment provides a realistic platform that enables both the utilisation of completed functions and the tailoring of larger entities for different courses, whether it is a single exercise or a larger study module.

VLE also enables exercises that could not be safely done in a regular production network: investigating vulnerabilities, training attacks and defenses, and testing different network configurations.