Shetland College

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Shetland College is a further and higher education college in Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland.

The main campus is located at Gremista, on the outskirts of Lerwick. There are also dedicated premises in Lerwick for teaching Hospitality, at Anderson High School; and Health and Care at North Ness Business Park. Outside Lerwick there are Teaching Centres based in more remote parts of Shetland from which daily travel to Lerwick would not be practicable. These are to be found at Unst, Whalsay, North Mainland, West Mainland and Ness, in the south mainland.

It is part of the University of the Highlands and Islands.

Its web site is http://www.shetland.uhi.ac.uk

e-learning

Distance learning

The college offers 'many' courses online at a distance: http://www.shetland.uhi.ac.uk/studying-at-sc/how-you-can-study/part-time-study

Online learning for on-campus students

The college's library gives access to online resources to students: http://www.shetland.uhi.ac.uk/students/library-services

Open Educational Resources (OER)

No evidence found of OERs.

VLE

Blackboard is the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) at Shetland College.

For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland_College

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