The paper aims at developing a model for a Virtual Environment for Distance Education
and Training (VEDET) that offers a comprehensive metaphor to be used both for humancomputer
interface and instructional design purposes. It also gives a paradigm for
restructuring traditional education and training by complementing them with a virtual
component. Thus the VEDET would not replace the traditional school, university or
training department of a organisation but rather extend their facilities and tools and make
their activities more flexible and technologically enriched
