Abstract:

Virtual teaching and learning have been part of the integration of the use of technological tools in this digital age and new normal. The formation of a knowledge society and the digital storage of development of modern civilization culture still remain a continuous process in the era of virtual teaching and learning within the education system especially during this global pandemic lockdown. This article reviews the use of virtual teaching and learning as techniques to improve digitalization in the use of new e-tools in teaching and learning in Nigeria. To achieve this, the concept of virtual teaching and learning is reviewed with the intention of looking at its features in digital education. The benefits of virtual teaching and learning are many which include opportunity for timely and distance education, better interactions, easily accessible to learners; the lesson can be easily tracked and recorded. It was concluded that virtual teaching and learning had great significant impacts on digital education and proved to be a vital and sustainable tool in digitalization of education. This paper recommends that the government of Nigeria should improve on adequate provision of infrastructures which will aid the use of virtual teaching and learning at all levels of education system.

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