I find the whole trend of online studying quite disturbing. From what I've seen, it defines studying as sitting in awe and trying to soak up the knowledge flowi

I find the whole trend of online studying quite disturbing. From what I've seen, it defines studying as sitting in awe and trying to soak up the knowledge flowing from professors, and strives to replace it with possibly more efficient channels and call it the next best thing. All the while completely ignoring the second, in my opinion equally important, part of studying - peer to peer socialization. It's just an immature paradigm still. Obviously the web has proven itself to be an outstanding medium for peer-to-peer socialization, and it's only a matter of time before online education taps into this.