Like the telephone, the Internet allows people to communicate with each other from any place in the world at the same time. The major difference is that the Internet makes it easy to meet and communicate in groups as well as individually. Our faculty find that meeting their classes on the Internet in Real-time discussion is a highly effective learning experience for their students. Instructors create multiple Virtual Classrooms in which students can interact in small groups. Instructors hold Virtual Office Hours in which students can meet with them individually at designated times.
Students can meet to work collaboratively on course materials and projects.
Our faculty have developed a set of protocols and tips that make IRC one of the most powerful teaching tools in their Web Tool Box. To run IRC, you need an IRC program, commonly called a Client. There are lots of them out there. Most people prefer a simple user-friendly client. The best Windows -based IRC client, bar none, is mIRC .