Design of Virtual ClassBox system for supporting distance learning

Information and communication technology has been developing very rapidly in the last decade, especially in the video and audio field, which leads to the use of multimedia conference as a beneficial way to communicate. From that concept comes Virtual ClassBox (VCB), by enhancing educational process and helping educators in providing lectures over distance. VCB is a low-cost and easy-to-operate device consists of a single embedded board, combined with video camera and microphone, integrated with UNIX operating system made to send and receive multicast video stream over networks. In this paper, it will be covered mainly about specification and implementation of VCB. For the time, development of this product is still to operate in a local network.