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I think I learned more from the comments than from the actual article! It's interesting how many people still think the internet is a terrible way to learn when so many B&M classes are just glorified computer labs anyway. You bring your computer in, you take notes on the computer while you watch the professor give a lecture, you leave. How is that different from a prerecorded lecture? Aside from the delay in getting questions answered; but how many students even bother/remember to ask questions during the lecture itself?

I guess extreme extroverts simply can't understand being able to learn while NOT surrounded by a seething mass of fellow students.

Agreed! So many people are caught up in what they view as "the full college experience," which to them is mostly social. To me, it's about doing the work and earning the credits. I don't need or want the social aspects of it. Just give me the information and the assignments, and grade me on my performance. That's it. Actually I think "Small Group Communication" will stand in the way of my degree. Trying to organize group projects and meetings online, plus my grade being dependent on what others do or don't do... NOPE.

100%.  I have told my kids since they were little, we won't be paying for a "college experience" but we will pay for your education.

And, do you ever notice how the justification for a group project in school is "you're going to have to work with other people "in the real world."  Well, in my real-world experience, each person is responsible for a portion of a project, and are reporting to their boss, and if they don't do their part, they will get fired.  There's accountability there.  Not so in a school-related group project, none of the upside but all of the downside of working with a group. Ugh.