I'm thinking about changing careers and am looking into various online degree programs. My search has been mainly in IT and business fields. I thought online degrees would suit me perfectly. As an INTJ, school is my thing, and I do it best on my own. But what I keep finding in online programs is quite alarming. I keep finding schools that are deliberately trying to create "cohorts" and "communities" in their online degree programs. Those programs require group projects or require that you take all classes at the same time as a group of other people. As an INTJ, that would hinder my education instead of enhance it. Because I work in higher education, I had already noticed these trends in traditional face-to-face classes, but I had not realized it had creeped into online offerings.

Have any of you noticed these same trends? How have you dealt with them? How does an INTJ take the qualities that make them a good student (free thought, independence, and ability to analyze) and fit them into an educational program that is contrived to favor people who learn by talking?