Learning Engineering / System
Virtual classroom
Definition
A multi-person learning environment created in software and supported by networked computer-mediated communication rather than a shared physical room.
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The virtual classroom helped establish the idea that teaching and learning communities could persist across distance through networked technologies.
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Sources and evidence
- Modernizing Learning — Ch. 2, p. 23 (direct)