During the past three weeks, I have found one great advantage of Distance Education is the access to information.  I have learned so much and am motivated to learn more.  I know that on my own, I would have not taken the time to explore things like gator feeds and blogs.  Another advantage to DE is that one can work at his/her own pace on his/her own time schedule.  This has helped me because weekends are my time to catch up and devote to college work.  During the week is planning and grading papers once I am home and also spending time with my husband.  A third advantage to DE is the access it gives people to other people.  If it were not for this class, I would not have met the people in the class nor connected with the math teachers at TappedIn.

A disadvantage of DE is that it is not readily available to everyone.  Schools have come a long way in acquiring the technology to make DE possible, yet many teachers do not know DE resources are available.  Just as Kearsley said, the biggest advantage of networks for K-12 is an online library system.  Many home users do not have access to fast networking, so they are not able to take advantage of the DE resources, such as video streaming.

Using DE as a teacher has its advantages.  I can find more resources to use in my classroom.  I can connect with people who are interested in math like I am.  If I have a student on homebound, then I could communicate with them about the assignments as long as they had network resources at home.  My students can eventually work on collaborative projects with students at other schools.  I could not come up with a reason why I would not want to use DE with my students.