Literature Review

Researchers are only beginning to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the Internet in the classroom. However, even at this early stage, there is emerging evidence that the Internet provides a variety of valuable aids to education.

The biggest impact of Internet on education is the ability to access the education you need 24 hours a day. Additionally the Internet provides up-to-date information on a variety of classroom and non classroom related topics unavailable from other sources. On line degrees are increasing yearly, and niche education has proven valuable to many corporations.

Due to so many free self learning educational products, you can learn just about anything. Marketing on the Internet is developing and changing at such a rapid pace that the class room cannot stay in touch with the skills needed to be successful.

The internet has led to a redesigning of course features such as: online resources, syllabi, virtual classrooms, online discussions, interactive learning and fewer lectures. Learning is shifted from teacher centered to learner centered as a result of the internet which caters for the needs of the students more adequately and is self-regulated by the students.  In addition, the learners develop critical thinking skills, interpersonal skills, better cognition and better management skills. (Linn, Davis & Bell 2004).Virtual classrooms refer to a simulated and computer based environment where there is real time teaching of students from different locations all over the world as if they were at one place at the same time. Instructions are delivered remotely via the internet in these virtual classrooms to teach at high schools, colleges and university to deliver distance education (Alessi & Trollip 2010).

 This method is increasingly becoming popular with students who can now learn from the comfort of their homes and is therefore becoming a major component for education mostly in the developed nations like Britain, the United States, China and Germany.