Yet another virtual classroom over the Internet

Due to the wide variety of information on the Internet, students taking online courses can be easily distracted by netsurfing onto unrelated sites either accidentally or purposely. This undesired sidetracking is hard to supervise by the instructor in a remote location. The authors propose an Internet-based virtual classroom model that features a centralized mouse control mechanism to provide the instructor with the capability to call remote students´ attention to class and to synchronize class activities. Also included in the model is an FCFS floor control to regulate participants engaged in audio conferencing in an orderly fashion.