Project-3 | Present and Future of Online Collaboration

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1.1 Online Collaboration

Online Collaboration is designed to help people involved in a common task achieve their goals with online software and is also known as Virtual Classroom. A Virtual Classroom is private online space that teachers can use to support student learning. It is accessible via the Internet, 24 hours a day, and 7 days a week and is just like your face–to–face classroom.

1.2 Need for Online Collaboration

There has been and will always be a need to reach people who can’t easily be reached through traditional face-to-face methods. Changes in society and the increasing need to train people mean the need to teach and learn at a distance will escalate (frame in a better way). Some of the main benefit of online learning (a form of distance learning) are flexibility (people can learn at any time of day or night without being tied to a class schedule) and consistency (everyone gets the same quality of training, regardless of where they’re located).

1.3 Evolution of Online Collaboration

“Online” learning started from the time the first web browser was marketed in 1994. Corporations, government entities, non-profit organization and universities began to realize the advantages of training large numbers of geographically dispersed people via the Internet, and vendors emerged to provide distance education. Making use of the latest technologies to reach out to people scattered globally is one of the major reason for the evolution of online collaboration.