I agree with you on this. I've noted previously how similar these (current) online class models are to the early movies, in which they simply filmed plays. It t

I agree with you on this. I've noted previously how similar these (current) online class models are to the early movies, in which they simply filmed plays. It took a while to realize that some of the constraints that had been baked into the older format no longer applied. My biggest pet peave is the whole notion of a monolithic college "degree". Being forced to sell your car to pay $5000 (you do the math) for a class in interpreting Winnie-the-Pooh from a marxist-feminist perspective in order to get an engineering degree is maddening. If employers began accepting a la carte credentials, classes would move toward their real market values in a system of open competition. Monopolistic "tying" (if you want this important class, you'll have to also pay for this useless class) would break down and people could be much more strategic and fine-grained about what courses they took and what they were willing to pay for them. And I would have to believe that most employers would rather have a candidate who had taken the $5000 the university had earmarked for the support of their staff marxists and applied it to about three more engineering classes, one tech writing class, and an accounting class.