VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS TOOLS USED IN HIGHER EDUCATION

From the perspective of educational sciences, VLE (Virtual Learning Environments) tools offer technological support to teachers and students to optimize the student-centered teaching/learning process, so as to eventually accomplish an actual transformative learning (Mezirow 's Transformative Learning Them)). Since the tools provided by VLE are very diverse, teachers must get to know them well in order to be able to use them efficiently in the process of teaching, learning and evaluation. When a teacher chooses to use e-learning tools, s/he should have in mind both the type of the course in which they can be applied and the students' needs and abilities. In order to evaluate VLE tools for Higher Education on practical level, a brief survey was carried out on a sample of 120 students. Survey results and Mezirow 's Transformative Learning Theory tell us that, for a modern educational system, learning procedures/methodology need to be improved.