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Businesses spend a great amount of money to send representatives to locations where potential or actual clients are located, media conferences are held, etc. Their cost of sending a representative includes traveling accommodations such as hotel rooms, plane tickets, car rentals, food and other goods. These expenses can become quite costly, especially if they are in another country. The accumulation of these costs can drive the company into serious debt. Businesses have turned to video and web conferencing to reduce these unneeded costs. By doing so they have reduced their expenditures to maintenance, software, and hardware, which is less than the accumulating travel accommodations. Video conferencing also can greatly contribute to a learning environment. In many fields, hands on and diverse teaching could help the students become more knowledgeable in their field of study. The outcome of learning through a video conference, as stated by Daley, L., Spalla, T., Arndt, M., and Warnes, A.. (2008), can be that the student can “experience a richer education through exposure to other schools of thought, learn to make the world a more manageable place through videoconferencing…, and be creative and open in developing novel educational approaches” (80). The students can basically experience the same as if they were to go to an actual classroom with a tangible teacher present. Student response, as explained by Daley, L., Spalla, T., Arndt, M., and Warnes, A.. (2008), was that it “enhanced their learning, exposed them to diverse thinking, increased their ability to collaborate…” (80). From what was presented, video conferencing is beneficial to the a class room environment.