In some sense, isn't what universities do already modular? To get a degree you don't take a single course consisting of 1200 hours of classroom time; you take

In some sense, isn't what universities do already modular? To get a degree you don't take a single course consisting of 1200 hours of classroom time; you take 30 courses of 40 hours each. There's no reason to assume that 60 20-hour courses, or 120 10-hour courses, wouldn't be better - or perhaps a mixture of different lengths.