Tokyo Online University was established in 2018, with two faculties, one of which is the "Faculty of Information and Management", which provides engineering education based on a curriculum referring to J07-IT, which refers to IEEE/ACM CC2001-CC2005. In this paper, we describe how we have been working on educational activities that involve exercises, mainly programming. We will discuss difficulties with programming education in distance learning, showing statistics of students’ learning logs. We show that we are making some efforts to overcome the various difficulties in distance education with practical training and exercises.  In addition, we discuss the renewal of the curriculum that is planned after the completion of the four-year “aftercare period” in 2022.