Introduction to a Virtual Class Room
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| Virtual class room (VCR), as the name suggests, is a class that has the students and teachers linked together on a network using the Internet or intranet etc, while physically being miles apart, interacting and studying in real time. |
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| How does a virtual class room work? |
| Using Web-based interactive programs both the trainers and the learners interact in a “real” time environment. |
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| At the appointed time both the students and trainers come online to attend the class. Just like a regular, conventional class. |
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| Once a session starts, everyone is a part of the live session that is seen by all the students, however away they are from each other. |
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| Virtual class room works using audio and video conferencing tools that are easily configurable and can also be used to show pre-recorded video tapes and CDs as well. Virtual class rooms have redefined e-Learning in today’s world. |
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| Students can interact with the trainers and they can solve their queries instantly online. Not only this, students can also interact with each other with the help of a chat tool feature. This is just like ordinary chatting tools used by Web users all around the world. More and more advanced e-Learning solutions are being designed everyday, at the heart of which are the virtual class rooms, which are being touted as a better option to regular class rooms. |
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| Students can interact with the trainers and they can solve their queries instantly online. Not only this, students can also interact with each other with the help of a chat tool feature. This is just like ordinary chatting tools used by Web users all around the world. More and more advanced e-Learning solutions are being designed everyday, at the heart of which are the virtual class rooms, which are being touted as a better option to regular class rooms. |
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| Virtual class room have an edge over conventional class rooms as they can be recorded and played back verbatim by the learners, something not possible in a regular class. |
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| Just like the class room has a black board, virtual class room also has a software tool called whiteboard – which can be used to explain certain queries and draw diagrams, etc. |
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| Other standard tools like presentations, image files, html files etc can also be uploaded on the whiteboard – thus if you already have some study material then it can be easily plugged into virtual class room. |
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| Online test and evaluation feature are also available that constantly gauge the extent of understanding of the trainee and provide feedback on assignments. |
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| Benefits of virtual class room |
| It saves time - Conventional learning processes like class rooms require space and cost more, in terms of infrastructure required, getting all the learners and trainers together, etc. virtual class room and other e-Learning tools, on the other hand, save space and cost much less; it can accommodate a large number of students within the same training solutions at no extra costs. |
| Excellent for executives on the move - e-Learning is fast becoming the ideal choice for the executive on the move. |
| Interaction between teachers and students, just like a regular class room with an added advantage of recording and sharing data, information and entire e-Learning sessions. |
| Storage of whole process of training through an Automatic Repository Creation on the computer for future reference. |
| Standardization of content. |
| Due to standardized content, a change of trainer does not hamper the training session. |
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| Opportunities in virtual class room |
| Great opportunities exist in the arena of Virtual class rooms in the fields of |
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| Skill and process training by experts to diverse group of physically distanced employees. |
| When only a few experts are available –and it is not possible to bring them to a regular class room. |
| Great opportunities also exist in areas new induction training where a standardized induction program will help a new entrant. |
| When the organization has employees spanning continents it will be useful to have virtual class room’s for them all. |
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| In fact the whole world is now becoming a global class room with colleges, institutes even Universities holding virtual classes for its students and the corporate world using it to train its employees across the globe! |
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| Contact Us to find out more benefits of Virtual Class Room, or organize a personal demo of our virtual class room software Wizdom Room. |
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| In fact the whole world is now becoming a global class room with colleges, institutes even Universities holding virtual classes for its students and the corporate world using it to train its employees across the globe! |
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| Contact us to find out more benefits of Virtual Class Room, or organize a personal demo of our virtual class room software Wizdom Room. |
