Online education has DNA flaws. Two of those showed in big ways in recent weeks.
Many in education would call that a great success. But, the school’s accreditor said, quality nosedived. The oversight body specifically noted that, “A discrepancy exists between enrollment requirements for online versus on-campus student populations” and that the online programs relied heavily – too heavily – on contract, adjunct teachers.
Again, this ability to scale and squeeze every penny from every online student is a feature of online education, not a bug. The lower quality, higher profit model is the very design benefit that we’ve seen from for-profit schools for a decade and more recently from such schools as Southern New Hampshire University and Arizona State and Purdue and others.
And this isn’t some shabby operation happening in California. Reporting says that 60,000 suspected fake students applied for financial aid in the state and as much as 20% of the traffic at online admissions portals for California schools may have been from bots trying to enroll., one professor who’s been tracking the fake student situation said she thinks the bots “could be multiplying.”
The LA Times reported that a Vice President of Academic Affairs at one of the impacted California colleges recently sent an email to professors in online courses suggesting that they “require interactive engagement from students during the first week of classes to determine if they’re real or fake.”
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