 IVC, or Interactive Video Conferencing, is a resourceful 21st century technology tool that provides access, opportunity, and exposure to a wide range of learning experiences that supplement your campus academic offerings. Teachers can sharpen their skills by accessing any number of professional development offerings. By bridging the distance with IVC, your students or teachers can collaborate with others, access virtual field trips to museums, colleges, hospitals, and other organizations here in North Carolina or around the world, right from your IVC classroom. IVC provides an environment most similar to the traditional classroom. Students can see, hear, and interact in real time with the teacher and all the other students. The feedback and communication is immediate. Campus learning is different from my face-to-face classes because you're able to connect with other students from different schools and you get to hear their different opinions. I think that an IVC class really combines the best of an online class and a face-to-face class in that it takes the independent learning from the online class and the interaction from the face-to-face class and just combines them. I would definitely recommend taking an IVC class. It's also the wave of the future. It's the kind of learning that our students need to be able to do to work globally. With tight budgets, videoconferencing is an excellent tool for schools to save gas and time while maintaining the face-to-face contact key to effective learning.