A virtual classroom provides online educational activities and resources to complement traditional classrooms and link schools to the internet. It offers several advantages for students, teachers, and schools. For students, it increases access, flexibility of time, and reduces costs compared to physical classrooms. Teachers benefit from the flexibility to work part-time and instruct lessons from anywhere with an internet connection, which saves time and money. Schools and businesses see lower costs than traditional classrooms, with technology-delivered training estimated at less than half the cost of in-person instruction.

1. WHAT IS A VIRTUAL CLASSROOM?A Virtual Classroom is a collection of free, online educational activities and resources. It aims to complement the efforts of governments and educators around the world to integrate technology into their classrooms and curricula and to link their schools to the Internet in educationally productive ways.

2. ADVANTAGES FOR VIRTUAL CLASSROOM

3. ADVANTAGES FOR STUDENTS For students of virtual classrooms, advantages primarily concern access, time, and cost factors compared to those incurred from attending the traditional, physical classroom.

4. ADVANTAGES FOR TEACHERSFor teachers of virtual classrooms, working part-time is a possibility because of the flexible nature of the classroom The teacher is not required to work from an office or classroom to instruct lessons or organize 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. 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

5. Advantages for Schools and Businesses operating Virtual Classrooms For educational institutions and businesses offering courses, lessons, and/or training through virtual classrooms, several advantages exist over the traditional form of delivering courses and training in a physical classroom. One source says that technology-delivered training costs is less than half that of lecture/laboratory training costs, which is an advantage to educational institutions and businesses who want to create a means of educating people in a cost-effective format.