Your boss’s master’s program is becoming the rule for many mid-career professionals. I did something like it when it was still classroom-bound in the late 80s. Nominally “Computer Systems Management” it was the most writing I had EVER done in school up to that point.
More recently I did a fully on-line JD program. Such are unaccredited at present but I was able to get a California Bar license, passing on first attempt. Not only was there extensive (sometimes seemingly impossible) work required outside the “classroom” we were also fully Socratic, called on frequently in classes that averaged perhaps 7 or 8 students. One day these programs will gain wider acceptance and accreditation.
I see more ads every year for colleges offering on-line courses. The first to extensively advertise in my area was Southern New Hampshire University. A more recent one has been Grand Canyon college or something like that.
Locally Liberty University has run out of room to grow and is betting big on on-line courses.
Maybe the Wu-flu will do us all a favor and kill secondary education as it is currently being practiced.
If more courses are on-line maybe the “studies” departments will dry up and blow away?