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Originally Posted by slapass
It seems with technology, we all could go to Harvard virtually and travel to testing centers for finals. Campuses should be shrinking and places should be closing. It seems to be the one place where tech has not had a positive impact and yet they use a lot of it.
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Everyone wouldn't get in. To get in Harvard as a degree candidate, you have to pass a series of classes that weed out almost everyone.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
People don't trust "online" colleges. No one knows who is logging in to do the course work. Then again, in a regular college it's not much different - seems to me like students rarely show up and just submit their work when it's due.
The amount of money my kid is spending on an AA degree is staggering.
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They are now live proctored at universities and often TAs watch student cams live. The "people don't trust online colleges" quote is an old saw from the 1990s, like "people will never give their credit card to a web site"