[blazespin]

I think we need to have some A|B testing around this.

While I am a huge believer in this, my little finger tells me that Online students will perform worse when it comes to exam time.

There is an energy to synchronous group learning you can't duplicate via websites. I remember when I was in college and university, a bunch of us bonded a bit and got pretty competitive (in a friendly way) when it came to our grades and test results. If you developed a good relationship with your prof, they would often have high expectations of you and you didn't want to let them down. These emotional connections can be pretty inspiring to kids ages 18-22.

If they want to be competitive with campus students, they need to either duplicate these emotions online (via virtual worlds?) or perhaps increase the workload and adjust the bell curve so students fail out quickly unless they take it very seriously.

[chasing]

This. (Except for the virtual worlds stuff.)

If what they're selling is online videos and someone to check your homework, $3,300/yr sounds kind of expensive.