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"I found the interaction between the students and the professors was just as effective as a traditional classroom setting, if not better. The interaction between the students in the e-classroom, e-groups, chats lines, cell phones, and emails were at times extremely intense."
- Valerie Adkins
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VTMIT students may be spread across the globe, but they are not isolated. Instead, students get to know each other and their professors through a variety of media. These relationships and networks carry through each class and out into the professional world. Students are expected to work together, just as they would in a traditional classroom setting or on the job. Through group assignments, study groups, and regular discussion sessions, the VTMIT program promotes teamwork and peer communication, regardless of distance. Here are some of the tools students use to keep in touch and turn to each other for assistance and discussion:
- CentraOne: students can meet in a real-time, online, multi-user, audiographics environment to talk, text chat, application share, websurf and more. Further details »
- Discussion Boards: threaded discussions provide an easy, direct way to post questions, answers, ideas, and arguments.
- Chat Rooms: students find space to chat in a number of locations. Centra software incorporates a text chat for questions and comments when audio is not necessary or convenient. Blackboard, the learning management system that hosts course websites, houses a Virtual Classroom where class participants can communicate in real time. Additionally, some students in study groups or working on group projects set up special chat spaces using 3rd party software from Yahoo!, Google or others.
- Email, listservs, phones, instant messenging ... the possibilities for communication are numerous!
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