Done By: Murtadha ALAjmi 68691 Hussian ALAjmi 68710 Submitted to : Dr. Alaa Sadik

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WHAT IS A VIRTUAL CLASSROOM? A teaching and learning environment located within a computer-mediated communication

system. All activities and interactions take place through

the computer instead of face-to-face.  Virtual classrooms may involve three overlapping

scopes of interaction technologies: VC courses, meetings and presentations.

Among the synchronous events are online

meetings, which may include online presentations.

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Definitions of Virtual classroom on the Web: Virtual education refers to instruction in a learning environment where teacher and student are separated by time or space, or both, and the ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_classroom The online learning space where students and instructors interact.www.uen.org/core/edtech/glossary.shtml

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Definitions of Virtual classroom on the Web:

Courses or entire degree programs delivered in whole or in part electronically via a combination of World Wide Web pages, Internet newsgroups, e ...

www.maine.gov/education/highered/Glossary/Glossary.htm

The electronic, learning community where students and teaching faculty interact using Internet listservs

and the World Wide Web.www.tarleton.edu/~lilly/B.htm

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Virtual classrooms may involve three overlapping scopes of interaction technologies: VC courses, meetings and presentations. Among the synchronous events are online meetings, which may include online presentations.

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- Virtual classrooms provide the community and control

some learners need.

- Flexible time: students may participate at any time of the

day..( Learning is flexible) .

- Efficient learning

- Location : students are not limited to courses offered in

their geographic locality.( Overcome distances)

- More active learning: the computer forces response and

attention .

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A Virtual Classroom might contain:Class activitiesGroup and individual learning activities Discussions and chats with students, parents

and guests Quizzes and surveys Homework activities and assessment

documents Full online courses with modules of work Forums and synchronous chat sessions WebQuests, Hotlists, Scavenger Hunts, etc.

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- Virtual classrooms remove the need to travel to a location in which to participate in the course or lessons. - Virtual classrooms can be accessed from any computer that has the necessary software, hardware, Internet connection, and Internet browser requirements in order to participate in the virtual classroom

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Advantages for students -virtual classrooms are accessible to students with physical disabilities, which is an advantage over the real classroom, as they can access it from home.-Virtual classrooms have been affirmed as “time independent meaning that �students can access the course material and activities in the virtual classroom at a time that is most convenient to them.

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Advantages for teacher The teacher is not required to work from an office or classroom to instruct lessons or organise material and lessons; this can be done from anywhere where they have access to a computer with an Internet connection and other necessary software/hardware, which is an advantage .

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Advantages for teacher Electronic content can be updated more efficiently than printed material, and at a lower cost, which saves the teacher time and money when preparing and adjusting material to suit their lessons and courses

within their virtual classroom .

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Limited offerings: the choice of courses is limited at present.

Equipment requirements: students who do not have a computer will have to travel to use the necessary equipment.

Delayed feedback: it may be hours until a question is answered by the teacher.

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limitations for teachersThe teacher must develop educational content that is interesting, relevant and important to students, and in an appropriate format (using asynchronous communication or synchronous communication tools), which is a difficult

task .

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limitations for teachersThe teacher must develop educational content that is interesting, relevant and important to students, and in an appropriate format (using asynchronous communication or synchronous communication tools), which is a difficult

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Second Life has recently become a virtual classroom for major colleges and universities

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Cisco webex : provides on-demand collaboration, online meeting, web conferencing and video conferencing applications. Its products include Meeting Center, Training Center, Event Center, Support Center, Sales Center, MeetMeNow, PCNow, WebEx AIM Pro Business Edition, WebEx WebOffice, WebEx Connect, and others.

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Examples of VC

•Centra •Click-to-Meet

•Horizon Wimba •iLinc

•MacroMedia Breeze •Marratech

•Microsoft Live Meeting

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Synchronous√Asynchronous√

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Student-student√Student-teacher√Student-content√Student-machine√

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Group-based√Self-based learning√

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Anytime√Anyplace√Ease of access/use√

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Development√Feedback√Delivery√

InstructionStand-alone medium√Multimedia support√

Cost√

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The research has concentrated the most used Virtual classroom tools which are as follows:

•Centra •Click-to-Meet

•Horizon Wimba •iLinc

•MacroMedia Breeze •Marratech

•Microsoft Live Meeting •WebEx

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The researcher has found out that • Horizon Wimba,• iLinc, •Microsoft Live Meeting Are the most attractive and implemented tools of virtual classroom through internet.

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