Can anyone tell me the disadvantages of Distance learning?

[TMW2010]

Well, as a "youngster" of DL ( ), the only drawback serious enough to have been a potential dealbreaker for me was the lack of interaction with your professors. Sitting in a lecture for a few hours (as long as it was on a topic that interested me), didn't really sound that bad to me. If I could have taken 60 credit hrs of CLEPs and then transferred to a B&M school, I would have done it in a heartbeat. But since that wasn't an option, I opted for missing out on lecture time on stuff that did interest me in exchange for escaping from the lectures that didn't!!! I get to spend one of my post-CLEP years at a community college, though, so I will get some classroom experience

But yeah, that was just me. Most people are super excited to skip all the lectures entirely.

Besides, if you really want to watch lectures, you could always use YouTube or ItunesU to get ahold of the video. For me, it was a nice change to stream a few lectures to my TV on subjects I wanted to get a little more depth in.