[OT] college

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 09/02/2018 05:43 AM, Joakim wrote:
> Most will be out 
> of business within a decade or two, as online learning takes their place.

I kinda wish I could agree with that, but schools are too much of a 
sacred cow to be going anywhere anytime soon. And for that matter, the 
online ones still have to tackle many of the same challenges anyway, WRT 
successful and effective teaching.

Really the only difference is "physical classroom vs no physical 
classroom". Well, that and maybe price, but the community colleges have 
had the uni's well beat on price for a long time (even manage to do a 
good job teaching certain things, depending on the instructor), but they 
haven't made the uni's budge: The best they've been able to do is 
establish themselves as a supplement to the uni's, where people start 
out with some of their gen-ed classes at the (comparatively) cheap 
community colleges for the specific purpose of later transferring to a uni.