Over 100 courses are offered through UAF Center for Distance Education. It's interesting that while UAF says that their distance education courses are applicable toward UAF degrees, they also say that you cannot earn a degree from them entirely through distance education courses. Some university programs are so specialized that they are only available in a few places. For example, the University of North Dakota Department of Space Studies offers the only Master of Science in Space Studies degree in the United States. The coursework for this degree is available to students both on campus and through an Internet-based distance learning program.
Some subjects are clearly better candidates for distance learning than others.
The range of subjects are being taught through distance learning, however, is quite large. You can also get an idea of the variety of courses being taught using some form of distance learning by looking at the web page for the World Lecture Hall . This page contains links to web pages created by university faculty to teach courses on a wide variety of subjects. Many of these links offer little more than online syllabi, but others are the base for courses that are attended entirely by students at remote locations. The use of distance education for corporate training and development has been growing quickly in the last year.