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Introduction
Truly speaking, modern world assumes shape of a
global village more due to the advancement of
Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It
aptly affected more or less every developed and
under-developed nation of the world.
Contemporary world echoes voices of digitization.
Use of ICT is increasing day by day everywhere on the
planet. Super-markets—through ICTs, made easy
access to buy any product online at their residual place.
ICT has a significant role to play in disseminating
education. People interact, share ideas, discuss things,
Store and retrieve data, all became possible with due
intervention of ICT in education system.
In practice, ICT shaped enormous virtual
universities that are operative in the world, provides
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diploma and degree courses through e-learning or
distance learning mode. Educational materials are
now in our doorsteps and even cheaper unlike when
libraries are found in government agencies, its
accessibility restricted (Leonard Chidi & Rose; 2014).
One can access the world libraries from his local
point through ICTs. In this virtual world, many
traditional religious organisations and academic
institutions, however, come forward and began to
introduce religious education through ICT.

1. Virtual Education refers to instruction in a learning environment
where teacher and student are separated by time or space, or both and
the teacher provides course content through management applications,
multimedia resources, the internet, videoconferencing, etc.