Students are far more confident in posing questions and completing asignments. Students MUST participate, so it is much less likely that a few outspoken students will dominate the class. Distance Education on the Internet, then, is a technology of the 90's and the next milennium. As population centers grow in size and congestion prevails, centralized education becomes impractical. Even now, state-funded universities are bursting at the seams.
Classes are huge and impersonal.
Given these conditions, which are are like to become more severe, Distance Education offers an alternative which takes advantage of the world wide connectivity of the Internet.