This is not a “worthless” degree or some kind of grant scheme.”
The jury is still out on what GT’s online degree program will be worth in the marketplace, since it is still relatively new.
I do not believe that you are suggesting GT is lowering their standards for online students. Nor that they are creating a 2-tiered degree system (online versus on-location).
Do you think that the individual employer will be slow to accept the concept?
The reality is that a degree from GT is.... a degree from GT. If an employer is rating students on method of lecture delivery and not experience + qualification + interview then I am unimpressed with the employer.
I remember when some warned that turning in work via email was “risky” and that non-traditional night school students would be regarded as somehow “lesser degreed.”
The Administrations that work to fight online degrees are concerned more with losing their local power than educating. A great reason for them to die off as quickly and with as much pain as possible.
Adapt or die. So to speak. :)