What we ought to be concerned about is how we can make distance education courses work better for us. Students love using computers and everyone does. If computers excite students, us teachers and educators, we need to exploit them to our advantage in teaching and learning. Distance education could resolve that problem if structured well. In addition, distance education can make our work easier and save us money as we know it.
Computers are fashionable and a new way of doing things.
To defy that, otherwise, will undermine progress in student learning in a fast moving world, and we will just be left behind. In closing, I think those who cry about distance education courses are those who are afraid of change. We all know that change is healthy and is necessary for development to occur. I hope we will revisit our thoughts and support distance education. Distance education is the way to go in this age of Information Highway.