[danaris]

"Online" doesn't mean "on-demand."

My wife got her Masters from Harvard recently through online classes, and every class had...I want to say about 4 hours a week of actual scheduled, synchronous class sessions over Zoom, in addition to the coursework required.

[stogot]

I’ve done years of online coursework and I’ve never had that nor heard of that at a community college. Harvard must be doing their own thing. I guess if you pay tens of thousands for a degree you’re stuck with onerous practices.

Community college is explicitly to help local students who are generally working jobs, so these onerous scheduled sessions are not reasonable