Treffer: Interactive Design of a Virtual Classroom Simulation Model Based on Multimedia Applications to Improve the Teaching and Learning Process in the Tikrit University Environment.

Iraqi higher education institutions use the virtual classroom platform to replace face-to-face teaching and online learning, and to overcome the challenges of traditional teaching. Therefore, this research aim was to use multimedia applications by using JavaScript programming to design a virtual classroom simulation model to improve the teaching and learning process in higher education. In same the context, virtual classrooms have emerged as an immersive alternative to face-to-face, hands-on classrooms. In addition, the possibility of using virtual classrooms opens new perspectives for Iraqi universities. The method of this work was based on the interaction design (Design, Development, Testing, Analysis, and Evaluation). Thus, was selected Tikrit university as a case study for different levels of students at university colleges, to conduct a thorough evaluation of the virtual classroom platform based on the Multimedia Criteria in Conole's Dimensions (12 criteria), which is considered as a general criteria evaluation for the proposed virtual classroom platform by experts' review from different Iraqi universities. In addition to the students' experience (first to the fourth year of the bachelor's degree) with the proposed virtual classroom platform from different colleges at Tikrit University. It can be a virtual platform for all Iraqi universities in the future. Finally, the results show that many students (200) are satisfied with the features of learning in the proposed model, with high performance and effectiveness in the learning process. Moreover, the results showed also that there is a strong need for the virtual classroom to process the difficult practical aspects of the learning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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