The Virtual Training Suite – getting a new lease of life

The Virtual Training Suite (VTS) is a set of 60 short, subject-based tutorials which help students develop their Internet search and evaluation skills and understand the key resources for their subject. Although JISC are no-longer funding the collection from 1st August 2011, agreement has been reached with the company TutorPro, who will retain the content and enhance and develop it for use through mobile devices, such as tablets and smart phones. The newly formatted tutorials can be viewed (including on mobile devices) here.



The tutorials in their current form are also
available for download from the Jorum repository and can be re-purposed and re-used within the terms of a Creative Commons license. The popular Internet Detective tutorial, which teaches generic Internet search and evaluation skills continues to be funded and is available here