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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brick & mortar colleges & universities have endured for a long, long time in this country.  I wouldn't write them off just yet.[/quote]

Horse-drawn carriages endured for a long time, too.

College has already changed dramatically from when I went (mid-1980s). Today, lectures are simulcast in Boston and Singapore -- the students collaborate on projects online. As PP noted, students are assigned lectures to watch before they go to class, and class time is devoted to discussion.

Today's kids see no reason to be in the same room with other people in order to interact. Why should college persist in using that model?[/quote]

I disagree. Recent masters degree grad with course requirements that were both face to face and online. The face to face classes were significantly more challenging and rewarding, even when taught by the same professors and "attended" by the same students. I was glad that we were allowed so few online classes in order to graduate. [/quote]

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