Absolutely, and it's already happening (I work for a business school and go to the associated graduate school). Imagine a system where professors, Ph.Ds, and experts in their appropriate field, can simply teach online and virtual classes (without a college serving as a "middle man"), and as long as you take/pass the appropriate classes required for a designed curriculum, taught by those certified to teach it, you get a degree. You can easily have 100 students in an online course. If each student pays, say... $100, the teacher/professor gets $10,000/class. Each professor can easily teach 4 classes (or more) a quarter ($40k, or $160k/year), and private market would mean the best professors fill up the fastest and do the best, and the shitty ones get no enrollment and disappear. For the student, $100 a course, generally 8-10 courses a year for 4 years (32 or 40 total classes) gets you the required credits for a degree, which comes to a grand total of $3,200 or $4,000.
I'm just talking about a hypothetical system. Or do you mean you want to know where I work and attend school? If so, it's honestly not really necessary information... I was just stating how my school, like most others right now during the virus, have turned to online education, virtual lectures, etc, and many students (and professors) are realizing, through the experience, that it's just as effective. Once you realize that, the next logical step is to question what purpose the institution itself serves, other than to act as a middleman taking a majority of the profits. They once served a useful purpose, but are now an antiquated and obsolete concept
Absolutely, and it's already happening (I work for a business school and go to the associated graduate school). Imagine a system where professors, Ph.Ds, and experts in their appropriate field, can simply teach online and virtual classes (without a college serving as a "middle man"), and as long as you take/pass the appropriate classes required for a designed curriculum, taught by those certified to teach it, you get a degree. You can easily have 100 students in an online course. If each student pays, say... $100, the teacher/professor gets $10,000/class. Each professor can easily teach 4 classes (or more) a quarter ($40k, or $160k/year), and private market would mean the best professors fill up the fastest and do the best, and the shitty ones get no enrollment and disappear. For the student, $100 a course, generally 8-10 courses a year for 4 years (32 or 40 total classes) gets you the required credits for a degree, which comes to a grand total of $3,200 or $4,000.
Can we get the name of the school?
I'm just talking about a hypothetical system. Or do you mean you want to know where I work and attend school? If so, it's honestly not really necessary information... I was just stating how my school, like most others right now during the virus, have turned to online education, virtual lectures, etc, and many students (and professors) are realizing, through the experience, that it's just as effective. Once you realize that, the next logical step is to question what purpose the institution itself serves, other than to act as a middleman taking a majority of the profits. They once served a useful purpose, but are now an antiquated and obsolete concept