27-07-2012, 04:26 PM
Virtual classroom
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OBJECTIVE
The most important factor affecting student learning is the teacher. Everyone understands, on a personal level, the importance of teachers to their educational success. Teachers who know their subject, understand how to teach and can adjust their teaching to student needs will be successful in raising student achievement, research shows. Teacher expectations also are a significant factor in how much and how well students learn. Online learning provides the opportunity for every middle grades and high school student, regardless of where he or she lives or attends school, to have access to a quality teacher. Many of these students benefit by being challenged academically by an online teacher who, in some cases, possesses stronger academic credentials and essential teaching skills than traditional classroom staff, especially in certain geographic and subject shortage areas. Access to quality online teaching can result in improved student academic performance and increased course completion rates. Quality online teaching reflects the attributes of any effective teaching, whether in the traditional classroom or online. Both traditional classroom teachers and online teachers need to know their subjects and how to teach them. They also must know their students, stay up to date in their subject areas, and manage and monitor students’ academic progress to ensure success.
Equally important is an understanding of the attributes of today’s
students, who have access to and can use technology to pursue
opportunities and information never before available to them. For many students, this access has changed the way they see the world and the way they work and play. Consideration of these student issues is critical for a teacher to be effective. Another often overlooked but important issue for online teachers: Delivery of Web-based courses are not restricted to a specific time or schedule. Because instruction does not start and stop at the same time for all students, time-management skills are extremely important, not only for the online teacher but also for students. The lack of these skills is a major reason why some students drop their online courses. Effective online teachers also must possess the ability to prepare quality written communications. Appropriate and effective writing not only conveys information it encourages and supports students. Words and body language that traditional classroom teachers use must be translated to the online environment for online teachers to be successful. All of these issues must be factored into setting appropriate standards for quality online teaching.
The services provided by:
Admin:
1. Registering staffs
2. Public registration
Staff:
1. Upload video
2. Download assignment
3. View question and post answers
4. Mail
5. Chatting
Public:
1. Download video
2. Upload assignment
3. Question posting
4. Mail
5. Chatting
PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT
Teachers and students are familiar with the workings of a
traditional classroom
Virtual classrooms are complete programs of learning .They consist of a mixture of synchronous and asynchronous events. They arespecial application of computer and network technologies to the task of education. Virtual is something whose existence issimulated with software. Actually, they are considered as teaching and learning environment located within a computer-mediated communication system. All activities and interactions take place through the computer instead of face-to-face. 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 course management applications, multimedia resources, the Internet, videoconferencing, etc. Students receive the content and communicate with the teacher via the same technologies. Virtual classrooms may involve three overlapping scopes of interaction technologies: VC courses, meetings and presentations. Among the synchronous events are online meetings, which may include online presentations
SCOPE OF THE PROJECT
This project was created with two goals in mind
1. Providing a simple online resource that will allow teachers to easily access online simulations
2. To give those teachers a way to easily distribute these simulations among their students.
Business Requirements
Increase the ability of teachers to use online resources in their lessons
Provide students with more opportunities to use these resources for hands-on learning
Stakeholders and Users- Educators
Benefit for a few reasons
Will easily be able to send simulations to students in their class
Easily run simulations with limited computer experience
Give students an online progress report
Easily search simulations with our search function
Stakeholders and Users- Students
Benefit for a few reasons
Look up assignments online, even if absent from class
Check their grade progress
Easily use simulations with limited computer experience
Can easily check homework for all classes on one webpage