India, May 20 -- Like so many other organizations, schools across the US, from kindergarten through college, scrambled in March to move from what has almost always been an on-premises educational experience to something new -- some kind of online learning program.

Some schools went with recorded online tutorials and set up office hours for students to "meet" with teachers, via phone or video conference. Other schools conducted live video conferenced classrooms and discussions. In some cases, schools shut down their on-premise teaching for the rest of the school year immediately. In other cases what started as a 2-week closure turned into the remainder of the school year -- months of instruction.

But at least one school degree program wa...