VIRTUAL CLASS ROOM MANAGEMENT

Virtual classrooms, virtual degrees, and virtual universities are actually explicit realities in today’s educational community. Barker (1994) notes that we are now educating geographically diverse populations and that “virtual [classrooms] will become as common place in higher education as the chalkboard once was”. Flexibility in educational provision is one of the many benefits that can result from the use of the World Wide Web in higher education. Of particular concern is the need to blend face-to-face and technologically mediated experiences, and to provide the capacity to mix synchronous and asynchronous collaboration as part of a flexible learning program.