“Virtual Networking: An essence of Future Learners.”

Advent of information and communication technology has made diversified method of communication among various multi-disciplinary platforms with multi-directional magnitudes to cohere at a single destination.

Effective utilization of information and communication technology has lead the educators to avail means of innovative methodologies to reach out the learners at the outskirt of education belt. Initially intended for drop-outs, or residuals of the under-developed society, the distant mode of education, at its concurrent diasporas, is no longer lies within, but, has achieved overwhelming success in consolidating the core stakeholders of the society.

Distant mode education has attained the recognition by scholarly educators, like Harvard, or Oxford. Enthusiastically, other front runners in this field have been indicted in this form of learning technique with specialization designed for professionals. Education has became a continuous process and a life-long learning phenomena, while networking has became an essential element of distant education methods.

Extending the conventional norms of learning processes towards interactive and collaborative learning; physical networks towards virtual communication platform; point-to-point connectivity towards multi-point interactive connectivity; stand alone data warehouse towards inter-connected distributed repositories, a homogenous backbone of education system can be realized.

Keywords: collaborative learning, virtual communication, distributed repositories.