Virtual Classroom. Worth the investment?

Institution nowadays are spending lots of money and resources into creating virtual classroom. Technology has advanced to a stage where it can easily supports these bandwidth hungry web applications, with 3D graphics, videos and audio. Our younger generation now spends much longer hours with their PC and the internet more than anything esle. There are many interesting websites and application out there. What make us so sure that we can attract them to attend a lesson on-line through a virtual game? With such a huge investment into building such platform can it really attract our young? I do not know...

I remembered there were on-line courseware and lessons offered. I smiply do not like it, makes me sleepy reading and looking at the screen... :p

Student can now virtually attend classes, while playing a game through achieving certain objectives, at their very own PCs. Is it really effective?? Can we motivate learrning through this? I do not know.

Maybe we should take a step backward before throwing good money into such investment, perhaps a quick survey with our students may help. Moreover, technology moves at an amazing pace, what we have today is history tomorrow. Who knows what would come next after a year or so. What we have invested today may become boring for our young, so we are going to fork out more money and throw them into developing something new? I do not know...