[ycombi3]

I'm sorry, but how could someone not have agreed with your statement? Online learning is a major threat to college for many of those reasons.

[non-entity]

Online learning isn't a very big threat to colleges because colleges hold a sort of "social monopoly" on credentialling for majority of fields. No one will care about you coursera certificates they want a bachelors degree.

[ycombi3]

True. But I still think this is changing for the better, just very slowly.