Teleconferencing in online learning offers a variety of educational opportunities. It allows student-centered learning where varieties of online tools can depict on individual learning styles and help students become more versatile learners. It also encourages collaborative learning where online group work allows students to become more active participants in the learning process. However, teleconferencing technologies are not standardized, which had caused various issues related to interoperability, transparency, platform dependence, security and cost. As such, data or application sharing, virtual room, mobile usage, shared whiteboard, virtual hand raising, online slide shows and joint viewing of presentations are varied across the adoption software. This study aims to propose a Wawasan Open University (WOU) virtual classroom to diversify and increase the capacity and technology of the university, especially in hosting an in-house teleconferencing platform. WOU virtual classroom has been successfully implemented in a testing platform. It allows in-house teacher, i.e. tutor and course coordinator of WOU, accessing for distance learning activities. This study suggests an extra assessment for the highlighted issue watching without learning. The proposed model benefits the peer interactions between the teacher and students. On the other hand, it allows real-time assessments by teacher during the online course delivering. Adapting and changing of course content in the virtual classroom for learners are dynamic according to the real-time assessment by teacher. The proposed model is an expansion of WOU existing operational model. A web-browsing-based virtual class is proposed by adopting various open source software which involve no proprietary recurring cost but minimal initial deployment cost. Content delivering is not limited to face-to-face tutorial support at a limited geographical coverage location at the regional centres and learning centres. The implementation of this virtual classroom may attract teachers or learners aboard. It expands the distance learning recruitment to a border-less mode, either in live or recorded video-audio environment. Learners are allowed to replay the recorded virtual classroom after the scheduled date and time for all enrolled courses. The implementation detail and issues will be discussed further in the paper.
Virtual classroom for technology-enchanced teaching and learning
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