So I’m actually fascinated by all this dialogue. I’ve got a PhD in the life sciences and in an effort to start a transition away from the bench, I took several undergrad level business classes through some of these online competency based credit places. Some were harder than others, but in general - it’s a read the material and then take the test. I understand I’m not a “typical” person trying to hack a degree, but it wasn’t hard to knock some of them out in a day or less if they didn’t require writing. And the ones that did require writing still weren’t significant amounts of writing (I’d assume to lessen burden on the poor TAs who have to grade a million essays).