The Virtual Classroom(TM) is a teaching and learning environment constructed in software, which supports collaborative learning among students who participate at times and places of their choosing. While students may access only the record of their activities, the instructor can review the activities status of any student, require that activities be done in certain sequences, and designate activities as required or optional. Activity types include question/response and electronic gradebook. Seminar type presentations and discussions are an example of the collaborative learning activity that is often difficult in the traditional classroom, but that lends itself well to the Virtual Classroom. Computer mediated communication (CMC) can be utilized in many different modes to support education and training: as an adjunct to a regular face-to-face course in order to improve both teacher-student and student-student interaction; as a mechanism for providing communications in a remote course where students receive lectures via video; or as a total means of delivery, without any other communication mode. A New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) project creating an entire degree program, the Bachelor of Arts in Information Systems, delivered via Virtual Classroom mixed with video, aims to attain five objectives: (1) faster progress towards the undergraduate degree, by facilitating self-paced learning and solving major educational logistics problems; (2) improved quality of learning through the increased collaborative learning and faculty-student interaction facilitated by computer conferencing; (3) increased access to educational opportunities for working adults or those trying to reenter the workforce; (4) formative and summative evaluation of the effectiveness of this media mix used in different ways for attaining the previous objectives; and (5) dissemination of the successful techniques and materials to other institutions. Using this instructional method to overcome logistical problems is discussed, and the evaluation measures are outlined. (Contains 15 references.) (MAS)