[shawnps]

Online classes can work, but it makes sense that students are frustrated by courses put together quickly due to unforeseen circumstances.

I've been a student of Georgia Tech's online Master's program for a few semesters now. They've had years to iterate based on previous students' feedback. I am learning an incredible amount for a decent price. But it is a Master's program and involves a lot of self-motivated research. Also, it costs roughly $850 per semester (if you take only one course). I'm not sure I'd have done it if it had cost thousands.

[smileysteve]

Gt's master in CS prices are, I think, the biggest reason for a large refund for this online half semester.

Where in state tuition is $13k a year, out of state is $33 and a masters program is $10k total (or $1700 a year based on the same calculations)

[jki275]

GT's MSCS is a totally different instruction model. It's all MOOCS, not focused online learning with regular sized classes. Most of the classes have 600 students in them.

[tootahe45]

Online classes are $8 a month and usually better quality than most uni lectures. If people wanted online classes they would've avoided uni altogether.