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virtual classrooms  

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  • Virtual Classroom was the name of software developed at New Jersey Institute of Technology in the 1980s: a computer-mediated communication system enhanced to create an asynchronous teaching and learning environment on computer networks. It was designed to enhance and support collaborative learning activities among the members of a distributed class. [Source: Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning; Virtual Classroom]

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