Professionals in the required fields of study can evaluate students' work, on a pay per read basis. Many accredited schools use graduate students to read and evaluate the work of students. Students who are evaluated by other students are not getting the best value for their tuition dollar. Bundling courses for delivery to students in traditional universities removes the natural diversity and spontaneity that education can take if individual students are allowed to follow their interests during their course of study. Academic freedom does not belong in the hands of a tenured faculty.
Academic freedom belongs in the hands of the students.
The students know where their interests lay. Students know that many required courses are simply make-work welfare programs for the university. The so-called defining features of higher education have not improved higher education. They have brought higher education to the brink of rapid demise. Many institutions of higher education have ignored the need for education to be related to the real world, provide a marketable skill or to prepare individuals to take a place of leadership within the community.