Teaching, even at a distance, can be a bloody pain and bore. When you hear people rhapsodizing about the joys of teaching, ask them about the pains of teaching - the constant setting and marking of exams and essays, some indifferent students who whine more than they produce, the deadlines for marks, the complaints about marks, the endless preparations. But, but, but you protest.
Profs never talk like that.
It isn't the party line, which is supposed to stress only the endless joys. Well, now you have heard something of the other side. About 10 years ago a student enrolled in my distance education course in Shakespeare. Her papers and exams were sent from Florida. Across the Borders Usually, if students are that distant, they can't enrol in the program because it is difficult to get materials back and forth across international boundaries while meeting our deadlines.