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I guess I'm in the minority here, but I fail to see how online courses are anything innovative - they seem to me like the logical extension of those 1000 student intro classes from 1000 to 1,000,000. I've done an entire master's degree program online and I feel like the quality of instruction was pretty much unchanged.

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It allows quality professors to bubble up to the top and allows the student to at least explore alternative lecturers.

At regular school you're pretty much stuck with whoever played their cards right to get the tenure, lecturing skills are hit-and-miss.

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