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A long term action research programme at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, has been examining the concept of the Virtual Class in terms of the educational needs of an information society and the design issues involved in its development. This paper relates the Virtual Class to Hyper Reality Technology and suggests the development of Hyper Colleges.
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Tiffin, J.T. (1996). The virtual class. In: Terashima, N., Altman, E. (eds) Advanced IT Tools. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34979-4_5
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