Okay so I think I'm missing something - This new model favors mentorship (adhoc and scheduled) but for the most part, self-education. And, as mentioned in the

Okay so I think I'm missing something - This new model favors mentorship (adhoc and scheduled) but for the most part, self-education. And, as mentioned in the article, graduation rates are kind of variable due to the lack of physical accountability (lectures, fellow students, etc). But. It's self-education. The way I'm interpreting this is a new, viable way for Universities to increase profit margins by accepting more students and delegating more of the core offering ("learning") to other students, while saving costs on traditional overhead (facilities, professors) AND increasing sales outreach (online). Now don't get me wrong, self-education and finding your own way in learning is the key to real, personal potential. And honestly, this is really the only way a student can succeed in college anyway. However, encouraging institutions to scale back even more on what most already view as a secondary function (Yes, most view research as their primary) seems wrong. Now if the cost of these acquired degrees we're to plummet I'd understand it a bit more. But I highly doubt the big name institutions will ever do this. I don't know, maybe I missed something, after all it was a long article and I have to get back to my kickass programming gig ... which is a skill I learned via self-education and experience. (Yes I went to college for economics and marketing. No I haven't used it at all professionally.)