Mandatory online learning

Inside higher ed reports that "Starting this fall, all students at Northwest State Community College in Archbold, Ohio, will be required to take at least one online course
to graduate". And the reasons? All the right reasons: it is good for the students, it is good for the institution, and it is good for faculty. This community college gets the fact that well designed online education provides and improves skills in ways that traditional face-to-face learning can't. Moreover, these are skills highly valued by future employers. Another point, not mentioned in the article, is that graduates of this community college, who have had a positive encounter with online collaborative asynchronous learning, are more likely to continue their studies some time after graduation, by going back to an online academic institution, and are probably less likely to drop out of such a program.