[ninalanyon]

I did a C# module online run by a Norwegian University. It was worth 6 points, 180 grants you a bachelor's degree in Norway (or did, I think there have been changes since). The course ran over ten weeks and there were weekly assignments. Of course it would have been easy to cheat on those but there would be no point because there was a five hour invigilated open book exam at the end of the course. Had to go to a testing centre about 35 km away to take the exam but that really wasn't a great inconvenience. If I had wanted to pursue a whole degree then I would have had 30 such exams, roughly one a month if you do the degree over the traditional three years. That doesn't seem like overkill to me, it's a lot less effort than attending lectures and tutorials for three years as I did for my Applied Physics degree.