Cyber Classes, Good or Bad?

Are classes being held on over the internet better or worse then those that take place in a physical classroom? Are they more convenient? Are they a better learning environment? Are the the future?

I feel that its hard to argue the fact that they are more convenient. People can take these classes wherever they choose, there is no travel or no hassle to it. You simply sit in your favorite chair sit back login and go. But is this a better way of learning. If we are sitting in our houses or apartments with distractions all around us how focused can we be. Now i know that we are a generation of multitaskers and that we can handle many operations and activities at once, but is that suitable for a learning environment. I feel that the more uncomfortable we are in an environment the more we asses and analysis that place and the information given to use there; just so we can focus our attention off the actual dullness of the place. To me typical personal meeting with a professor or professors in the optimum way of learning, second only to being at a place and experiencing it first hand. 

All this being said is this the future? People are growing more and more computer based and more antisocial as a result. This is a ever so evident with second life. People are "to shy" to go out and meet people in the real world. So instead of doing something about it and trying to alter their future, they sit back and accept that they are not social people and the lock themselves up and sit by their lonesome infront of a computer screen. I have a feeling that online class are going to be the wave of the future, but not because of their ease of use but because people are losing their personable skills. As we grow farther and farther apart from human interaction forms of communications are all going to be using this medium.

With my feelings out of this new wave of technology and the "future" to which we will be entrapped i am glad that i am towards the forefront of this revolution. Not to say that i have anything against technology, i fully endorse the pursuit of further knowledge all be it through the computer or whatever; but i am more then fine with falling behind on this fad or cultural phenomenon.