Challenges in using virtual environment in education

Virtual environment (VE) is a system used to create and enhance communication between human and computers/machines. As such human-related principles and issues need to be examined and accomplished to make VE well received by its users. This paper will generally delve into the human-related challenges faced by VE. The four challenges identified are students' characteristics; educators' and guardians' characteristics; students' health and social consequences from misuse and abuse of VE. These challenges will present to a more effective design of VE that will encompass the nature of the challenges as well.