The dreams for this primitive form of distance education were more than just access to an education for students. Educators believed that correspondence courses would be better than face-to-face courses because correspondence courses could be designed according to individual students.
The University of Chicago’s Home-Study Department, one of the nation’s largest, claimed that students would receive individual attention and they could work on assignments at a time and location that was convenient for the student. Administrators claimed that correspondence courses provided for more personal relationships between students and instructors. Courses could be taught according to students’ individual learning styles. Therefore, education delivered by mail would be better than education delivered in crowded classrooms (Carr, 2012).