The approach has been extremely successful both in terms of general student satisfaction and in terms of how well students learn. This course will be taught using an asynchronous approach where students can receive lectures anytime, from anywhere they have an Internet connection. They can, thereore, spend as much time as they need to grasp the lecture material. Problem solutions and explanations will also be available on the Web. The objective is to enable students to learn more accounting than they currently do in a physical classroom.
Students sitting in a classroom are typically quite heterogeneous.
Their aptitude for accounting ranges from poor to outstanding, their interest in accounting ranges from none to great and their backgrounds for the course range from inadequate to excellent. The result is that some students are over challenged and others are bored. The virtual classroom approach allows all students to master the lecture material at their own pace. Having used interactive multimedia for all my accounting courses since the Fall 1992 semester, I was in an ideal position to upgrade all the computerized materials I developed during the six-year period and move them to a virtual environment. The interactive keypads which I have used so successfully to provide feedback and motivate students to learn are now be on the screen instead of in their hands.