Intranets are breaking down the divisions within a school and bringing together teachers, different grade levels, different classes, and different departments for collaborative learning purposes. The Internet and the World Wide Web are bringing together students, instructors, experts, and vast global resources scattered around the world into new clusters, colonies, and communities of learning.
Instructors can develop and teach classes from their homes to students distributed around the globe.
Libraries scattered across vast physical distances can join together into new associations for the purposes of sharing resources and acquiring licenses. There are virtual classrooms for all academic levels and emerging. Some consists of groups of conventional classrooms brought together by means of global networks to collaborate together and one or many learning projects throughout the academic year. Some are courses accredited by conventional colleges and universities and intended to provide students from geographically diverse regions with new more interactive alternative to traditional distance education mediums. Some online courses are provided freely to any learner with access to the World Wide Web.