How to succeed with Virtual Learning

Virtual Learning is making use of Information and Communicating Technologies (ICT) for learning and teaching purposes. ICT can transform boring, repetitive lessons into becoming more interesting and well organized. There are different ways to succeed with Virtual Learning. Using it at school can affect the way students learn and how teachers teach. It has various impacts on teaching methods like some of the following:

Facility to Save Work
A teacher can save the time spent re-writing or going through important parts of certain lessons. One can save the work and refer to it at any time.

Run off material for pupils who were absent
Some teachers have to repeat or re-explain most of the lessons for any absent students in order to help them catch up with their other classmates. In other cases the teacher doesn’t have the time to repeat such lessons usually due to deadlines and the pupil is left to learn the lesson on his/her own. So, with virtual learning, it will be easier because it saves both the teacher’s and the student’s time.

Positive incentive
Pupils are given a chance to go over parts of the lesson they didn’t quite understand by going through the saved work done by the teacher. They have also the chance to come out and show what they know and understood. Most of us already know that it is quite difficult to keep students away from a computer! Therefore is helps to attract pupils` interest. They don’t loose interest in the lessons and remain concentrated on the task at hand. It can also improve their behaviour and encourage them to willingly follow what is being said in.

Using Interactive Whiteboards
An interactive whiteboard can help the student succeed more due to some of the following reasons:

• Play – the element of play is an important component of learning. This whiteboard has serious intentions and can be fun.
• When using video clips, animations, audio files and other web materials, one can understand more easily.
• Ostentive teaching- is the way young children learn through pointing at objects or people to reinforce questions of statements.

World-Wide/ Online
Virtual Learning is such a success also because of its online facilities. Currently such initiatives have advanced and provide teaching facilities through the computer. This helps not only the full time students, but also those who work and/or wish to continue studying a subject on a pat-time basis. They can do it in the comfort of their home and have the advantage of one to one attention or can talk about it with other people through forums.


In conclusion, Virtual Learning has many advantages that can help someone to succeed. First of all it helps by making the pupil feel comfortable with the computer itself, especially for those who do not have ICT experience on a daily basis. It can improve a pupil’s behaviour in school whilst making this pupil to be more open and show what he/she can do.