For-profit institutions and lesser-known public universities are offering much cheaper virtual classrooms.

FORBES: School For Scandal

People miss the point when they believe that most students can be content to skip over the effervescent face-to-face dimensions of college life, whether to hit fast-forward on their careers or to sit in virtual classrooms.

FORBES: Through Eight Centuries of Criticism, College Remains Worth It

Here the fault is the education, not the internet, which needs to be given a much bigger role in classrooms (real and virtual).

ECONOMIST: The net generation