I've done a lot of distance learning courses in the UMaine system and they are pretty good. Most of the professors had the technology figured out 10 years ago, and the ones who didn't have a pretty good support system. The classes are a manageable size, the largest I was in was ~30 people and the smallest ~8. Overall it's a good system to do an online degree in.

There isn't much to see if you visit, as others have said it is a very rural place.