At any time they choose, students can review and reflect on the transcripts they have stored in their computers. These archives invite students to organize and reorganize the body of ideas covered in the course. Possibly most important, Distance Education frees the student from the requirement for meeting at a specific time or place. Students often find it convenient to complete assignments while travelling, and at any hour of the day or night. Appearance and dress are not important.
Students are far more confident in posing questions and completing asignments.
Students MUST participate, so it is much less likely that a few outspoken students will dominate the class. Distance Education on the Internet, then, is a technology of the 90's and the next milennium. As population centers grow in size and congestion prevails, centralized education becomes impractical. Even now, state-funded universities are bursting at the seams. Classes are huge and impersonal.