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The use of Virtual Classroom in Education Technology

Virtual education Refers to instruction in a learning environment where teacher and student are separated by time or space, or both, and the teacher provides course content through the use of methods such as course management applications, multimedia resources, the Internet, and videoconferencing. Students receive the content and communicate with the teacher via the same technologies. Virtual education is a term describing online education using the Internet. This term is used in K-12 schooling, often to refer to cyber schools, and in higher education, where so-called Virtual Universities have been established. A virtual program (or a virtual course of studies) is a study program in which all courses, or at least a significant portion of the courses, are virtual courses, whether in synchronous (i.e. real time) or asynchronous (i.e. self-paced) formats. Virtual courses a synonym is online courses are courses delivered on the Internet. "Virtual" is used here to characterize the fact that the course is not taught in a classroom face-to-face but through some substitute mode that can be associated with classroom teaching. That means people do not have to go to the real class to learn.

Complete the tasks: 1. Investigate about the advantages of virtual learning in our country. 2. Using this link: http://www.k12.com/what-is-k12 Summarize what are k-12 classrooms. 3. In your own perspective, it is possible to implement virtual classrooms in our education system. 4. List five disadvantages of virtual learning. 5. Explain the following concepts: Videoconferency Multimedia presentations Application management.

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