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Some administrators believe that distance learning can be cheap.
A lot of courses have online components. Professors can post handouts, course materials and interactive programs so students can do quizzes and get instant feedback from the computer. The trick is doing all this without classroom meetings. Some feedback can be handled by sophisticated software, but such software is expensive to buy and use. You may be noticing that good online teaching is labor-intensive, and works better for smaller classes.