cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1806644
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It’s beside the point whether you like it personally.
If someone was able to pass advanced math tests, does it matter how they learned it?
Why should it count for less because they did it online, so long as they did understand the concepts in the end?
Because math and science are large interconnected fields that you simply cannot learn from a textbook study. You must speak with other people about many different topics so you can broaden your understanding of where your education fits in the world around you.
Have you ever studied a particular subject and wondered “OK… I can solve that problem now. Why did I learn it?” Textbooks are notoriously bad at explaining the why.
That’s all very vague, what specifically do you think people wouldn’t know from online work?
Someone studying math online could be speaking to many more people through video calls, online forums, and get exposure to many professors through different videos.
You can ask “why am I learning this?” during an online class, and in-person work can be textbook heavy.
If there’s something specific people need to know, it should be tested for. The vagueness around what problems online courses have seems to be an excuse to preserve a system that is inaccessible to the majority of the population. Only about 40% of the population ever gets a bachelor’s, and many of those are online already.