A positive development.
Good solution
I’d say 95% of them are academically bankrupt NOW
For online education to be effective and accepted by employers, the grading has to be real. I worked my bottom off for my MBA. Others in my “class,” who put little or no work in, got the same A I did. The difference was, I really wanted to learn something. I did practically every homework problem, assigned or not. The educations we got were unequal, but the grades were uniformly high. Consequently, I don’t think potential employers believed there was any value in my degree.
Many, many people go to college to delay the onset of adulthood. So unless "online learning" comes with fraternities, spring break at Daytona Beach, and "safe spaces" in cyberspace, I think the forecast here in this book is all wrong.
I look at my situation, and don’t think I’m atypical. I’m a retiree who loves to learn, especially without grade pressure. I watch Great Courses. It’s a much better way to learn than a classroom environment.
Yep—not a moment too soon.
I see their campuses turning into retiree housing and playgrounds.
If much of what I am reading about AI is true, will it matter what we humans do about seeking higher education? It appears the bots will make all the decisions anyway. And, if the online method will rid higher education of its infestation of liberal/socialist/ communist professors, then so be it.
How do you take a Lab over the internet?
If you are doing metallurgy, how do you heat treat a billet of steel or measure the tensile strength of an aluminum rod?
I am not sure if it was the Conservative Mackinaw Center that said a while back only 2 of the 5 major schools in MI will survive between cost and demographic trends and I don’t remember the time horizon. The point being, these schools have gotten too expensive, and their are alternatives, it is just a matter of time they are in a gut wrenching change scenario.
This book was published seven years ago. So I guess we’ll see if they’re right in about three years.
Should be 2/3.
They overspent for a fad.
They have abandoned their traditions.
They are the next Sears.
At least half of them are morally bankrupt now.
No, online education IS the more cost-effective way to receive an education.
Sometimes you hear the argument that Johnny or Suzie will lose out on the "college experience" if they're deprived of going to a brick and mortar school. College experience - really? Experiences like debauchery, indoctrination and shaming by loony liberal professors, etc., etc. If Johnny insists on going to Fornication U. let Johnny sign and pay for it!
And here I thought going to school was to gain an 'academic' education. How foolish of me.
There are many fully accredited fully online schools that offer degrees without the crazy high cost. WGU and Amberton come to mind.
In a similar vein - if parents are tired of having their K-12 schools indoctrinate their kids, online no-cost schools are a great alternative. "K12" online school comes to mind.
No more degrees in African Homosexual Studies?
They are already intellectually bankrupt, 90% I would say. So, if they are the supposed bastion of intellectual foment, then it follows that pecuniary bankruptcy should be in the “wake”.
So, any bets on the next scam whipped up to subsidize the lifestyle of unemployed “studies” professors? Global warming and it’s carbon exchanges look like a bust. Current trends suggest government functionary jobs are out. And the b a rista profession is reaching a saturation point.
Too bad it doesn’t start 2018
I find that skilled workers like plumbers-electricians-HVAC techs—car mechanics etc have much more sense that liberal arts college grads like some of my nieces and nephews
States will continue to dump money into them. Taxes will be raised, tuition and fees increased. All under the insane idea that kids “need” college. The biggest pushers are leftist elitists and government and teachers unions who cannot stand to lose their indoctrination centers.