The Rise of Low Residency Programs
MOOCs (massive open online courses), once heralded as the future of distance learning, have generally proved disappointing, with student attrition rates mimicking sand in a sieve. Online “universities,” meanwhile, distinguish themselves more as financial sinkholes than bastions of academe. Could low-residency master’s programs could be the (semi-) digital option that harnesses the power of the binary universe—and gives students actual skills to advance their careers?
