Niki, What you describe is the bigger issue with education - not so much the delivery platform as it is the delivery of the content. But in today's information age and digital stimulus constantly changing, we also expect instructors to "entertain" us in the traditional classroom instead of taking responsibility for our own learning. Online education makes us take responsibility for our learning. I believe what you describe is also why instructors are starting to embrace the flipped classroom models where they use the technology to deliver the basic content which then frees up class time to have more meaningful application of the course content (discussions for example). Herbert Brown III