Has anyone come across any published statistic which would state something like:
Retention levels are XX% higher when learning in person vs. satellite
broadcast or netmeetings?
How much more effective meeting attendees are to their action items
after meeting in person vs. remote?

My guess is the results are about the same on the average. A very
carismatic and informed leader obviously teaches more and better by
remote learning than his trained representatives would giving the same
presentation in person. where the skill difference is small remote
learning is inferior.   Neil

From personal experiance from my last semester classes. I would have
to say that online school has alot of disadvantages. You don't recieve
the proper help, when you do somethig wrong on a paper you never find
out the lack of support is terriable. But this was in my case at my
Hutchcc last semester. I mean it may be better other places but i
actually had to keep telling the theacers that if i made a mistake
that i wanted to know what i did wrong otherwise they wouldn't tell
me. And the lack of support for some testing software that wouldn't
work any 3 different computers and the site that ran the software took
me well over 20min to keep logging in everytime before i could
actually get in. And not to mention the runaround i recieved when i
tried contacting my advisor, theacher, and tecnicall support both for
the software and the college techsupport.