The stupidest idea to hit higher education since the administrators who thought it up. Learning happens through personal interaction, not through the pseudo-interaction of distance "learning". Spend the money on putting computers in the classroom, not on putting the classroom in a computer or TV. If you don't want to sit in a classroom, then go read a book. The only people who should use distance learning are those people for whom going to a classroom isn't a mere inconveience, but a hardship, such as single mothers and the handicapped.

Oh, yeah, I'm a teacher, so you might consider my opinion biased.