On January 28 and 29, 2017,over 40 members of AGBU Europe leadership came together in Brussels for an AGBU Europe Summit to develop a plan for the implementation of the region’s strategy for the next five years.
Language and Heritage is-one of the four pillars of AGBU Europe’s strategy and strengthening e-learning opportunities via the Armenian Virtual College is the key decision associated with this pillar. One of the four workshops of this summit had been dedicated to this pillar ...

The AVC Multimedia e-Book Series continues to be used by students for academic and leisure reading. This spring AVC held a number of presentations of the e-books at public schools in Armenia. The students of #136 and #108 public schools in Yerevan learned about the benefits of the innovative e-Book series and became active users of the series.
Through a public lecture on March 22, 2017, AVC opened the wonderful world of e-Books ...

The list of Armenian schools increases each term recording new success stories. Recently, the Looyce Armenian School of Sydney, Australia, incorporated the AVC Hybrid Education Program in its curricula to benefit from the blend of traditional and online education methods.
Due to the continuous efforts of Mihran Lepejian, AVC’s dedicated liaison in Australia, and the teacher Irina Ghoughassian the Looyce Armenian School joined the AVC Hybrid Program ...

When speaking with Arman Kocayan from Istanbul, he immediately remarked about how Armenian Virtual College connects people worldwide, stating: “Hearing that your mother is from Bolis is so cool, you are from Canada and we get together by AVC from Yerevan. This created a wonderful feeling of connection and unity within me.”
Arman works as an ERP Systems Officer at a luxury goods company. He has lived in Istanbul his entire life, which he describes as ...

AVC continues its geographic expansion throughout Europe, building awareness in all cities with an extensive Armenian population. On November 29, 2016, AGBU Lyon and the AGBU YPs organized a meeting with AVC Founder Dr. Yervant Zorian at the AGBU Center in Lyon.
The event began with opening remarks by Viken Kojakian, the AGBU YP chair, who welcomed Dr. Zorian’s visit to Lyon ...

Alternative education is becoming more and more popular with an increasing amount of educational institutions choosing to benefit not only from traditional but also e-learning methods, and sometimes incorporating a blend of the two.
On March 17, 2017 AVC Chess Instructor Vahagn Kalantaryan organized a Master Class at #166 Public School after Artem Mikoyan in Yerevan. The schoolchildren of the III E class had an exciting journey through the AVC online course ...

AVC continues to increase the number of partnerships with overseas educational institutions and retains its partners throughout the succeeding years. The partnership with Granada University was initiated four years ago and new collaborative plans were discussed during Dr. Yervant Zorian’s recent visit to Granada.
The partnership began with the Translation and Interpreting Studies Department of the university ...

In its 8 years of successful operation AVC has been featured by a large number of local, international media,the latest one being Nouvelle d’ArmenieMagazine (NAM), published in France.
Nouvelle d’ArmenieMagazine had called attention to AVC activities in the past years; however the recent article in NAM April issue, it highlighted AVC’s invaluable technological resources in reaching out to Armenians worldwide and providing not only Armenian education but also connecting ...

The Armenian Virtual College and several e-educators and practitioners from leading organizations in Armenia came together at the Colloquium on Online Education on April 14 at AUA, to share their experiences in providing online education.
AVC Academic Director, Prof. Hasmik Khalapyan, presented the experiences, successes and challenges the College encountered in providing online education worldwide. Prof. Khalapyan pointed ...

VC Hybrid Program continues to record new success stores and an increased interest in its innovative teaching methods. During his recent trip to Jerusalem, AVC Founder Dr. Yervant Zorian met with the leads of the Sts. Tarkmanchatz Armenian School , which has long been planning to incorporate AVC’s History course into its curricula.
During his meeting with the school principal Father Norayr Kazazian and history teacher Horout Baghamyan, Dr. Zorian highlighted the benefits of hybrid learning, ...

The partnership project with Russian-Armenian Slavonic University (RAU), intended for the academic year of 2016-2017 (September 2016 to June 2017), includes 16 students from RAU’s Departments of Management and International Relations. The students are successively taught three levels of AVC’s Eastern Armenian course through Russian: Beginners Eastern Armenian, Elementary Eastern Armenian and Pre-Intermediate ...

The collaboration between the Armenian Evangelical School of Beirut and the Armenian Virtual College started in the academic term of Spring 2017, thanks to the efforts of RA Ministry of Diaspora (MOD).
AVC’s Hybrid Education Program is intended for schools wishing to incorporate innovative learning methods into their curricula. This was indicated as a perfect fit for the Armenian Evangelical School of Beirut by the school authorities as they learned about AVC’s offerings ...