text: Students would develop greater social skills when learning through video conferencing with people all over the world. Online learning opens up many possibilities to many different types of people. By learning through video conferencing, it forces students to make bonds with their peers that they would not normally be in class with due to the distance apart. Online school provides different people the same opportunities to help get the same education. Many people believe that computers and online communication make it harder for kids to learn social skills today, but it actually does the opposite. The Internet and video conferencing give a whole new way of social communication because of the ability to talk with people from across the world. Although it is not the traditional type of social environment, it is still possible to make close bonds with peers that are experiencing different cultures, so you can learn about these different places in the world. Video conferencing in schools would help expose students to these different cultures and make them open to a diverse setting of learning.