What is Virtual Classroom? Advantages & Disadvantages(2022)

The Virtual Classroom is an e-learning concept whose definition and prime objective is to enable the educators and the students to impart and perceive education online, respectively, principally over the Internet. Additionally, it allows them both to communicate, interact and, work together with one another remotely from any location, without actually being physically present face-to-face, via webinars, audio and video conferences, web presentations, live streaming, text chats, Learning Management System (LMS) and online training courses.

Much like the smart classroom, it is a notion fixated on teaching and learning the education with help of developing technology but begs to differ by mainly focusing on achieving the digital transformation in the classroom with help of the Internet. It provides an opportunity for distance education to remote students by means of web-based online learning programs as well as the instructors with innovative teaching tools to teach virtually from anywhere at any time, irrespective of the geographical area, through online classes and courses.

Advantages of Virtual Classroom

• Personalized learning: Students can learn in their own time and in phase
• Long-distance learning
• Enhances collaboration and communication
• Real-time teaching and learning
• Effective and efficient time management
• Gives students and teachers a worldwide exposure
• Accessed to everyone equally from anywhere and at anytime
• Affordable
• Introduces students and educators to education technology
• Comprehensive online tutorials
• Encourages digital and smart classrooms
• Improves Visualization

Disadvantages of Virtual Classroom

• No control over the students or classroom
• No control over the learning atmosphere or environment
• Virtual Classroom requires computers and internet access, which might not be at hand for everyone
• Expensive: Enrolling in online live classes or courses can be costly
• Students lack real-time teaching experience
• The risk to the traditional student-teacher collaboration