This document discusses the evolution of distance education from early internet to modern web-based platforms and tools. It outlines how distance education has changed from a one-way model of content delivery to an interactive, collaborative model enabled by Web 2.0 technologies. Examples of platforms like Blackboard, blogs, wikis and social media applications are given that allow for online courses, communities of practice and learner-centered teaching beyond traditional limits of time and space. The implications for clinical pastoral education are that modern web-based tools can facilitate connection, collaboration and various learning styles in distance models of education.