In fact, distance education is a very promising direction in the modern world. You do not need to spend money on the road to the place of training, renting a house and other costs.
If you consider all the costs, then distance education is really much cheaper.
In addition, if you have enough funds and time, you can buy several courses at once and study them at the same time.
It depends on the complexity of the material. There are such courses that one is hard to learn quickly.