I am located in Anytown, Anystate. How will I communicate with faculty and fellow students?
Your situation is not uncommon. Questions and comments for faculty usually take place via e-mail. Also, informal discussions among students, and many team project activities, can be handled in this way. E-mail is a time-efficient medium for many types of communications, and precludes the need for playing phone tag. An assignment requiring intense discussion between class members may require a conference call that is set up in advance using e-mail. Of course, FAX, express mail, and other modes of communications will have their place. Communications between students and faculty in Distance Learning courses does not seem to be a problem.
