Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators
2026-04-19 · r/technology
Students are blazing through entire online degrees in weeks instead of years, presumably with AI doing the heavy lifting. Educators are shocked — shocked! — that their honor-code-based assessment system didn't hold up against tools that can write essays and solve problems on demand. Turns out 'self-paced learning' hits different when the AI is doing the pacing.