Online courses will continue to proliferate to the point that the price of a college education will actually be determined by the market. Prices will tumble, brick-and-mortar colleges will contract, some will vanish. Legions of college professors will lose their employment.
Win Win Win. And Win.
These union clowns can’t stop it. Even Youtube and Microsoft have online free classes, and even Harvard is onboard.
Yes, and there is nothing they can do. They priced themselves out of their own market and didn't realize it until it was too late that technology rendered them obsolete. Nothing can stop this trend, although there is some value in being present in a laboratory for hands on work. The undergraduate degrees will become online, and the graduate courses will be more applied, hands on experimentation.