Traditional correspondence distance education is a clunky animal.
Paper passes back and forth in the mail.
You study in isolation. Your work is examined by an instructor you never see, and seldom contact directly. But if you can imagine another, perhaps better way, the alternative now cresting the distance learning wave is the Internet. It s true that the information superhighway is cluttered with information junk. The Internet s full potential remains unrealised, and is accessible worldwide to a relative few.