People have been saying this for 10 years or more. If the bubble is going to burst, it's sure taking its sweet time. Here's an article to the contrary that was referenced in a DI thread about 2008. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/11/18/ed Many schools have adapted by offering many more distance programs than they used to. The college where I'm sitting right now, from which I've graduated three times, now offers bushels of programs by Distance Education only. That's OK, but I'm not buying, from here. Reason: I think it's cheaper to offer it that way and should be cheaper to enrol. And it's NOT. Same price as a B&M course. Right now, this college isn't offering ANY courses - day or night. It's very peaceful here - hardly any students, as the Faculty has been on strike for over a month. 24 Ontario Colleges, 500,000 students on hold. Particularly tough on the many students who have come from halfway around the world to study here. They've spent (and continue to spend) a LOT of money and receive no instruction. We should worship the foreign students. They pay almost 3 times the domestic tuition rate! I shudder to think what's going to happen to future enrolment, now word of this situation has got back to India, Ukraine, China ... Looks like some schools have worse problems than students being poached by Internet classes. Under normal conditions, most can just dip into the Net, poach their own share and carry on. Adapt or die - whether I like it or not. J.
OOPS SORRY! Didn't mean to necromance this 2008 thread. My blurb was intended to reference the article above in a different thread - a much more recent one. PLEASE DISREGARD MY POST ABOVE. DOESN'T BELONG HERE! J.
