He was in charge of making it work. He knew nothing about distance learning before then and was skeptical about the forum. One of the advantages is that I have students from all over the world. They get together via the computer and have teams. Professors say that they interact with these students more than with their resident students.
Distance learning is enormously time consuming.
The quality of work is as good as our executive MBAs. Clayton Lewis agreed with Hiroshi about the use of the computer to make analyses while the class is watching. A blackboard cam be too limiting. On a computer things can be moved around, tried out, analyzed, and reorganized. Imagine doing that on a truly huge visual space.