What If? Online Classes or College Courses and similar exploded in popularity and use?

[CarlManvers2019]

Presume that somehow, people all over the world, decided it'd be better to sign their kid up for sites like Udemy

If only JUST to get that specific skill and certification

How would things go in the long run if for whatever the reason, businesses start deciding some cheaper certifications' better than a full 4 years with too many subjects unrelated to said skill?

 

[Bear Ribs]

Online courses are okay for some things but if there's any practical or lab work involved or the job requires hands-on skills it just won't work right. I'd be perfectly content with, say, an accountant who learned online but not an auto mechanic.

As far as businesses, the thing is that businesses often don't actually need the education they require for an application. They do so because they use bots to sort through applications before sending them to HR so as to reduce the pile and thus the expensive hours paid to a human to look apps over. It's notable that their college requirements for even simple jobs tend to dramatically increase when there's a labor surplus and they "surprisingly" discover they don't actually need all those classes when there's a labor shortage and they can't fill their needed positions.

So businesses would continue to come up with increasingly large numbers of certifications because the education is often less of a point that simply winnowing down the number of applicants to whatever number they want their HR department to look over, with the number of certs varying according to the labor pool to get them the desired number of "suitable" applications.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

People would realize that for the most part, the education system is fraudulent and that you hardly learn anything practical from school.

If you want to be an accountant, you don't need to go to school for four years learning art and history and literature or whatever. You only need to learn the actual, you know, accounting stuff. If you want to become an author, you don't go to school for four years. You just start writing books.

If you're attending online classes, you're one google search away from finding the answer to pretty much any question, which just makes it even more obvious what modern schooling is. A sham.

For most jobs, everything you need to know can be learned online for free. You only really need to go to schools for specialist stuff, like culinarian schools, or medical schools, or engineering schools, etc.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

If you're attending online classes, you're one google search away from finding the answer to pretty much any question, which just makes it even more obvious what modern schooling is. A sham.

Not necessarily

I've tried taking online math classes for finance and let's just say that I still ended up needing the help of a tutor to figure things out

And even she is stunned by how most test questions seem broken or very badly or poorly worded