The Internet has opened up some great new resources to get a degree from anywhere. In fact, over 800 colleges and universities worldwide now offer courses that can be taken completely online without ever setting foot in a classroom. You're going to see more and more of this type of offering as colleges try to lure students from beyond their geographic area. Amarillo College offers several English and Mathematics courses online. I'm sure that both campuses will increase the number of courses offered as professors become more comfortable with online education.
Online classes operate very similarly to correspondence courses.
E-mail is used by the teacher to distribute assignments and give feedback to individual questions. Chat rooms are used when a group environment is needed. In some instances, a teacher could take all the students on a virtual tour of the Internet, controlling their web browsers through special software. In the future, look for audio and video connections in the cyber-classroom. Find out why on Friday.