answer:Maybe 25 years from now, when there are measurable outcomes of people who have had online education and used it successfully. But not before that. The main problem with online education is that you’re not acting and comparable with your peers because you are sitting at your computer at home. There’s not the unstructured interaction that cross-pollinates how people learn. (Yes there are chat rooms but that’s qualitatively different from a heated argument in a Constitutional Law class.) What needs to happen, for online education to be considered “equal” is that college grads need to measurably as well prepared as people who attend classes in person. Meaning, among other things, that their jobs, incomes, and actions are equal. And the only way to determine that equivalency is longitudinally – after the passage of time to see that online educated people have reached the same level of accomplishment 10, 20, 30 years after graduation.