Self ping for later read. Could be interesting.
I only see a handful of courses listed at their website. I wonder if this is all they offer.
Can’t happen soon enough!
My first and honest reaction was:
Why did it take so long?
The internet matured at least 5 years ago.
Why replace traditional Universities? Let me count the ways...
Later.
I agree entirely. Actually, as the world becomes more and more competitive it will be hard for countries who don't provide cheap online education to compate with those that do.
Let's hope so, it's far more difficult to continuously push propaganda and leftist preconceptions onto those who are online to learn rather than in a classroom. As it sands now, teachers and professors use subtle means to constantly impress their own opinions and bias on their students as well as encouraging peer pressure that agrees with them. Home school through high school and online university for college level degrees would burn the liberal totalitarian leech off the neck of education and help us return to being free citizens.
Regards
bkmk
I am pro-online education 100%. It cuts out all of the liberal professor’s yapping, you focus on work and work only, and you get the same knowledge pumped into your brain as you would attending one physically. Saves gas and scheduling as well.
Down with the b.s. brainwashing schools.
An interesting article. No doubt raising tuition rates will be noticed during a recession as every dollar is given more scrutiny as to the value it returns. It would be quite a sight to see the ivory tower of academia transform into the ivory research park of academia.
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They've fallen rather short in that regard -- I think it would be fair to say they're trying to destroy our civilization. Sink 'em. Fast.
Online has it’s pros and cons.
There are times when you need a HUMAN to discuss something you don’t understand. Sure “white boards” , e-mails and phone meetings are fine but online is not the utopia you’re being lead to believe it is. Also testing is open to cheating ... .
Okay I definitely have to check this out. Econ and Accounting are still on my list of needs for my Bachelors. Would have to see how they xfer from them to one of their partners to a college here.
Universities have been flamboyantly blase while MANY jobs for Americans have gone down the tubes owing to immigration-relative competitive forces (construction, plumbing, drywall, etc)...let’s see if they’ll remain so cool and collected as computers automate teaching, you know...?
If there remains a need for a human to be in the loop, let them farm those few positions out to India.
We live in this open, global culture where education is a right?
—>I SAY LET EDUCATORS LIVE UP TO THESE WORDS.<—
Whether StraighterLine succeeds or not, this is the future of education. Education as a commodity.
Embrace it or die.
may check into this!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting
Paying Professors what they are worth. What a novel concept. This nation would not be harmed in any way to have an educated public that hadn’t been personally exposed to the subsidized communists who hold court in the classrooms of most Universities today.
When I was in college they were considered a required penance and were tolerated for their eccentricity and odor. Who’d of thought that in just a few short years, they would own the place.
ping
I’ve often thought that far too much money is spent building and maintaining buildings, grounds, and an army of staff and caretakers for it all—not just at the college/university level, but K-12 as well. Some disciplines require infrastructure where hands-on teaching and learning can be carried out. The engineering disciplines come to mind. But a lot of education can be done distantly too, at far less cost.