— The purpose of the Online Training Room Project (iTeach) is to provide a platform for RT Lawrence IT Consulting Firm to experiment with designing spaces for learning. The project aimed to provide an alternative teaching and learning approach to optimize trainees' involvement and interest while helping them to achieve learning outcomes. This will motivate and invite the IT Trainers to design and build their ideal learning space for use as an online training room in iTeach or as a prototype for a real-life training room. The project showcases learning techniques and shows fast phases of training through the use of computer technology evolving in the modern world. Through this innovation, both trainers and trainees benefit on a different perspective and view of learning online wherein saving time and cost management are highlighted. The project is considered as an interesting trainee-centered approach that will help the trainer focus on learning styles and techniques as with the conventional teaching and learning methods. Computer functionalities like interactivity, multimedia, accessibility, and usability are the keys to achieving an effective online training room. I. INTRODUCTION Evolution of computers is inevitable. It provides answers to the complicated and complex problem of people. Computerization is almost in every sphere of field and industry and enables users to practically adapt its technology for further search for learning and knowledge. Technology has changed the business, industry, educational environments, and government ways of conducting training. Training had always been bound to the four corners of a training room based on the definition of traditional teaching method. When comparing learning as an identical course in a traditional framework to a computer-based learning framework, trainees have expressed higher satisfaction form the computer assisted learning, and rated the technique as more effective than in the traditional framework. It was argued that computer mediated or online learning is more effective and interactive. Findings of research conducted in the seventies and eighties, comparing the use of computers as a learning environment to traditional teaching, also indicated a slight improvement in the trainees's achievements following use of a computer. (Turrof. 1992) Computer-mediated learning or E – Learning includes many components that are familiar form traditional learning such as presentation of ideas by the trainees or students, group discussions, and arguments. The contents of the training course might be organized according to subjects and in a serial manner. E – Learning also includes advantages which are not found in traditional learning, such as: time for digesting the information and responding, enhanced communication among the trainees, both as quality and as firmness, knowledge being acquired and transferred among the trainees themselves, the ability to conduct an open discussion, where each trainee gets more of an equal standing than in a face-to-face discussion, access to information and to discussion ability, responses may be made around the clock with no restrictions, a higher motivation and involvement in the process on the part of the trainees. (Rashty. 2002) E-Learning could be great help because of the drill-and-practice, tutorial, or simulation activities offered either by IT or as supplements to traditional trainer-directed instruction. Study show that computer software provides many instructional benefits and computer-assisted instruction (CAI) which can have a much greater impact on trainees' learning capacity. In a classroom utilizing CAI, trainees often work independently or in pairs at computers inside the room. CAI effectively guides trainees through a series of interrelated activities and instruction, addressing a variety of learning styles. As a response to the changes in teaching strategies, Mentors and I.T professionals have teamed up to give rise to a new form of knowledge transferring tool called Online Classroom. Its concept is adapted for the development of this Virtual training Room-a system that provides the same opportunities for the teaching and learning process beyond the physical limits of the traditional classroom's walls, through the use of computer communication networks. Due to the ubiquity and popularity of the Internet, most VirtualTraining Room implementations are Web-based. In today's
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