The Government Accountability Office subsequently launched an investigation and found deceptive recruiting practices at many of the largest universities in the online for-profit sector . David Wheeler : Internet - less full - time professors are an endangered species . Wheeler : blamed it on the fervor for large - scale online education initiatives . He believes colleges are embracing online courses for cost - cutting reasons . Wheeler : But in the long term they will destroy America 's higher education system .
David Wheeler : Internet - less full - time professors are an endangered species . Wheeler : blamed it on the fervor for large - scale online education initiatives . He believes colleges are embracing online courses for cost - cutting reasons . Wheeler : But in the long term they will destroy America 's higher education system .