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An online college fair, or virtual college fair, is a relatively recent phenomenon that consists of a collection of colleges and universities that communicate and provide information online during a specific timeframe. An online college fair operates according to several of the usual conventions of a “brick and mortar” college fair: there are event halls, schools have booths that prospective students and/or parents can visit to exchange information, and there are speaker sessions by various admissions and education experts. However, the entire fair is contained online, and therefore an online college fair can also have many of the characteristics of a virtual world. One of the main benefits of an online college fair is that travel cost is eliminated for both school representatives and students. ==History== The first such online college fair was organized by the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) and held on October 9, 2001. Approximately 200 institutions participated; the number of participating students is unknown. This first online college fair was widely considered a failure as the number of students trying to log on overloaded the system.〔(The Chronicle for Higher Education )〕 NACAC, which planned on conducting online college fairs on a regular basis, discontinued the program after the initial event. Additional online college fair providers have come and gone. Gradschools.com hosted an online college fair in conjunction with a live fair. This event also ran into technical difficulties; namely firewall problems and recruiters that were not prepared to use the online chat features.〔(Matrix: The Magazine for Leaders in Education ) 〕 In November 2002, the Big Apple College Fair also had an online college fair in conjunction with a live fair.〔(PR Newswire )〕 In October 2007, BusinessWeek, which produces annual rankings of United States business school MBA programs, held a MBA Expo 2007 with the tagline “Find the B-School that fits you best.” A total of 8 US and international business schools attended. CollegeWeekLive entered the market in November 13, 2007〔(USA Today )〕 and continues as the leading provider of online college fairs today. CollegeWeekLive grew 67% in 2012.〔(University Business )〕 CappexConnect launched in 2013. Part of the Cappex family of websites, CappexConnect is a website dedicated to hosting online college fairs and online open houses.〔(CappexConnect )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Online college fair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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