The benefit of a virtual classroom is that while common to all, it remains accessible independently by each no matter where they physically are. A multiculturalism is possible that is currently available only at world's top universities. Specific teachers or programs no longer need be confined to a single geographic entity, but can be accessed from anywhere. But holding class in Cyberspace means more than simply recreating an auditorium in the ether. In the same way conventional classes take field trips to places of historic or scientific significance, educators can now recreate events virtually in a way that goes beyond the traditional case study approach to education.
Teachers have the chance to create a more experience oriented education program.
Already in Worlds Inc.'s recently unveiled virtual Yellowstone, work is being done so that people can follow the progress of real wolves in the wild from within the virtual representation of their habitat. These are merely a couple of illustrations, and undoubtedly they are limited by thinking trapped in today's reality rather than tomorrow's possibilities. Like many technological advances, much work needs to be done to help change this and dangers of expectations being too high remain. People read a lot into it. The Internet is about a lot more than a collection of Web sites.