The current trend is to have the classroom come to the student rather than have the students come to the classroom.
This increases the efficiency of the teachers and reduces the students traveling time.
A student will have the option to use a canned lecture at his/her leisure or to participate in a live lecture, a kind of conference call.
This type of lecture is not new technology in fact in the late 1950's and early 1960's teachers would conduct widely broadcast classes over the television. However the "dull Talking-head" medium was not the best production method. But as we seen advances like Video conferencing we move from a one-way communication link to an interactive two-way link.
Several governmental and private entities are exploring the building of broadband networks for distance learning and other applications.
We have already discussed many of the advantages and disadvantages to this type of learning, in Richard Shanks "Engines for Education" and through classroom discussions,