While there is merit in your thought, there is discipline required to go to class. I suspect that many don’t have the discipline required for educating them selves on line.
It takes discipline to roll out for an 8:00. It takes discipline to roll out and drive to the local college for morning classes.
Oh yes, then there are the labs. On line labs?
“On line labs?”
I have always found the Women’s Studies Labs are best done in private.
If they lack discipline to educate themselves then I don’t want to hire them for any position of responsibility, which is what a college degree should be for.
Those that don’t have the discipline to teach themselves probably are among those who don’t even belong in college. They need a large dosage of ditch-digging to properly motivate a desire to learn.
Discipline?
I got more (enough for a lifetime) in the Army as opposed to four years and a major university.
The old “argument from infantilization.”
We have to have Soshasecurity because people won’t save for their old age. We have to have government school because parents don’t care if their kids get any education.
As one who has had both online and brick-and-mortar classes, my experience is that discipline is required for both delivery methods.
Interestingly, today's brick-and-mortar classes have adopted a number of 'online' elements you find in online courses, such as: degree plans, course descriptions, course requirements, grades, online messaging between student & professors.