advance the implementation of learning technologies in Israeli higher education. Virtual TAU aimed to foster and
stimulate a process by which more instructors and students would use the internet to enrich prevailing learning
processes and make traditional instruction more efficient and flexible. After a decade of intensive implementation,
and in light of emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs) in academic instruction and learning,
the center now aims to: enrich campus-wide academic instruction at TAU; use innovative ICTs in academic
instruction to improve the quality of learning and teaching; promote research in the field of online-learning; and
contribute to society in general, and to Israel in particular, by offering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to
the general public.