Over the past decade, universities have quietly crossed an important threshold. Online degrees are no longer experimental, peripheral, or niche. They are becoming part of the core program offering at leading institutions. Across the UK alone, thousands of postgraduate programs are now delivered online, and hundreds of thousands of undergraduate learners study through distance or digital modes. What was once treated as an alternative pathway to obtaining a degree is increasingly a mainstream form of provision. But the most important question for universities is no longer whether they should move to online provision. The real question is how that migration actually happens inside institutions.
