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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 04 July 2014 10:34:11AM 2 points [-]

Could this be something that online universities could push as part of their appeal? Standardised university testing could go a long way to assuage fears about the quality of online teaching...

Comment author: Stefan_Schubert 04 July 2014 10:55:00AM 2 points [-]

Exacly; that is what I'm alluding to in my post.

Changing the system for certifying students is important not the least in order to facilitate inventions in higher education. The present system discriminates in favour of traditional campus courses, which are both expensive and fail to teach the students as much as they should. I'm not saying that online courses, and other non-standard courses, are necessarily better or more cost-effective, but they should get the chance to prove that they are.

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