I had courses where the lecturer wrote so fast that we spent the entire lecture trying to keep up with writing our own notes. and had no time to think about and properly absorb what was being said.
I did my degree with the Open University. Most of my friends at local "brick uni's" where complaining about having to take hand written notes and getting handed dodgy photocopies of course materials, which they had to clip into ring binders.
My courses arrived by mail with full colour, full gloss, shiny, printed textbooks. Lecturers were presented on VHS (and then later DVD and in come cases Multimedia interactive things). All software provided. By the time I finished my degree in 4 years I had a pile of course textbooks 4 feet high.
Some courses provided the actual 3rd party textbooks, but some required you go buy your own copy. Luckily these only cost me about £100 for the whole degree.
There were "Tutorials" which was once a fortnight with the tutor face to face classes at a local school in the evenings. I went to 2 of them at the start and then never bothered.