This is exactly right. Online courses have demonstrably WORSE outcomes than in person classes with much, much higher failure rates. Online courses that are easy do not teach anything. Those that are hard do not work because there is little human investment and students have no resources to get good help. They are mostly a scam and the UA system knows it. When confronted with this point in a meeting several years ago, an administrator says its our job to change that. LOL. It was apparently our job to turn lead into gold--ha, to be honest, that sounds like some research that the UA system would fund.