Devil’s advocate i hate online classes. It’s so much harder for me to contribute to discussion or ask questions when i have to do the extra click click steps, and much harder to maintain focus in a place like home where distractions are within arms reach. but i AM old so whatever, take it for what it’s worth

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Many university programs require hands-on labs, but I agree that online classes are sensible for those that don’t.

If 1% of sign ups to university free online courses make it to the end of the course, it was wildly successful compared with normal free online courses. Human beings are fundamentally social animals.

I think there are a few that do. WGU comes to mind, and “online college” yields a bunch of results. I suspect those with a bunch of “brick and mortar” investments, are reluctant to declare them obsolete, but new colleges welcome the low overhead of online-first.

Because some of us actually like to learn something