Planning, managing, and maintaining distance learning courses present challenges and opportunities for faculty that require shifts in teaching techniques and management. Interviews with experienced professors, published reports, and primary data assist in identifying reasons for the successes and failures of previous e-learning efforts while providing practical recommendations for lessening workloads, handling chat sessions, facilitating communications, and meeting other challenges. A technology overview details expectations for e-learning faculty, and the obligations of institutions. Methods of enhancing distance education are provided.