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    Studierende schreiben ihre Online-Abschlüsse in nur wenigen Wochen durch, was die Lehrkräfte alarmiert


    Studierende schreiben ihre Online-Abschlüsse in nur wenigen Wochen durch, was die Lehrkräfte alarmiert

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/04/19/accelerated-college-degree-hacking/

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    2. Tyrrox on

      As someone who’s hired some recent College grads, we can see the people who coasted and cheated instead of learning. The people who didn’t take it seriously don’t last more than 2 weeks on the job.

    3. VincentNacon on

      Maybe lower the prices then? It’s absurdity higher than it was 20-40 years ago.

    4. CaptainObvious00 on

      Isn’t this the progress and improved efficiency that AI was supposed to bring to the general public? If its not then I need someone to explain how all of those billions of dollars of investment are going to turn a profit.

    5. BusyHands_ on

      All this will do is devalue wage rates even more as more and more unqualified workers enter the workforce at increased speeds.

      Outside of STEM this will stagnate wages a lot worse than AI as everyone who gets laid off will pivot around.

    8. AP_in_Indy on

      I think a lot of people are coasting, but I can also attest to the fact that AI assistance has allowed me to learn many things MUCH faster than I ever could before.

      The problem is confining the AI to be instructive and not just give you the answers.

    9. 8neNsqnZwZC4Z09rH on

      The value of a college degree has been diluted for decades. I barely graduated high school, dropped out of college, and still make 3x or more the salary of my friends, even those with a master’s degree.

    11. TomBirkenstock on

      This is happening as university admins are pushing to incorporate AI even more into their curriculum. They’re just going to start devaluing their degrees, and the smart diligent students will suffer.

    14. dalivo on

      Let’s be honest…online courses are a crock. They always have been.

      Students can absolutely COAST in these courses. Sure, if you’re a diligent, dedicated student, you can get something out of it. But the vast majority of students, including the good ones, are happy to cut corners.

    15. fordtuff on

      There are so many useless bullshit padding classes in these courses. They won’t get rid of them even with AI cheating because it’s free money for them.

    16. tombatron on

      I finished the second half of my degree at WGU in 42 days. Didn’t use ChatGPT, I just have a whole career’s worth of experience that made the speed run possible.

    18. Mr-MuffinMan on

      weren’t online degrees always worth less than the paper they were printed on?

    19. ImOldGregg_77 on

      ya because too much of the in-person education is bullshit time-filler. Anyone who had school aged children during Covid found that out real quick.

    20. LeRobber on

      ADHD people often do very well with intensive program, and reletively poorly with more slow ones.

    21. kisrui on

      As a professor in mathematics in India it’s super alarming how much students depend on LLMs to learn things over notes I’ve give them.

      One student during my midterm provided a completed wrong definition of a group + wrong proof — after discussing their midterms he revealed he picked up the definition from ChatGPT.

    22. OneLessFool on

      Degrees from these Universities will quickly become completely worthless. Online degrees in general are going to end up needed some kind of accreditation to guarantee that they meet certain standards to avoid cheating (in person proctored exams making up nearly the entirety of the grade).

    23. EchoRex on

      This may also be showing that it is time to overhaul how many „filler“ classes there are that inflate the time it has previously taken to earn a US degree.

      30% of most, up to 50% for some, US degree credit hours do not apply to either the major nor to real life subject literacy problems. The majority of these are covered in survey courses that are already being taken as just part of the hours required for those subjects.

      Then things like media, medical, civic, and technology literacy programs are specialty electives, if offered at all.

      So of course people are using AI to blaze through course work for classes that are either mostly filler or entirely unnecessary for their goals while not understanding how to function outside of their chosen interest.

    25. JustaFoodHole on

      A lot of tests have you turn on your camera to monitor if you’re using another screen to send snapshots to AI, but not sure how well that works.

    26. Halloqween on

      I think this brings up a bigger conversation in education, which is what will education and future adults look like in 10 years?

      I teach 6th grade, and my students already have the mindset of, “Why do I have to learn this if AI can do it for me?”

      It’s similar to how I was told by my teachers that I needed to know how to do math because I wouldn’t have a calculator with me at all times. Look at how that aged. I don’t need to know my multiplication tables or how to long divide by hand because I DO have access to a calculator at all times now.

      But now it’s not just math, it’s literally everything. Why would a student want to learn how to write when AI will write it for them? Why bother learning how x affects y and z when AI will spit out an answer that explains the relationship?

      I have a lot of fear about generations being brought up in conditions where they will never need to think for themselves. It’s incredibly difficult to convince these children that they need to be able to when you’re fighting the battle of instant gratification and learned helplessness.

    27. Boysforpele3000 on

      There is a paywall, but how many weeks? I did my master’s degree in one year, but the classes were condensed so it was a very heavy workload.

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