Universities have to assign professors to courses, and if the quality of teaching is poor they generally don't pull them. Online education sites are almost pic

Universities have to assign professors to courses, and if the quality of teaching is poor they generally don't pull them. Online education sites are almost picking the person they feel is best for the job across the 20+ universities they partner. In a lecture one person answers a professors question, in an online setting everyone does. Many online programs are now using a standard course format with deadlines and grading (even the humanities with peer grading). Grading is also overrated as a learning mechanism, most of the important work done in grad school isn't graded. For that matter, little of the work one does as a professional developer is graded. People learn programming faster by writing projects till they work, getting feedback from a combination of software pieces (debugger, compiler, etc.) than they do by writing a project for a university course, to be evaluted by a TA at about 10 minutes a student.