{"id":11060,"date":"2010-11-01T16:01:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T20:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2010-11-01T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T20:02:18","slug":"straighterlines-challenge-to-the-rising-cost-of-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/11\/01\/straighterlines-challenge-to-the-rising-cost-of-college\/","title":{"rendered":"StraighterLine&#8217;s challenge to the rising cost of college"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/business\/technology\/bs-bz-straighterline-online-education20101031,0,7829764.story\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11061\" title=\"StraighterLinesChallenge\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/StraighterLinesChallenge.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"StraighterLine's challenge to the rising cost of college\" width=\"585\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/StraighterLinesChallenge.jpg 585w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/StraighterLinesChallenge-150x130.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At a time when a year of college can cost as much as a luxury car,  StraighterLine Inc. offers a cheap alternative: online courses starting  at $138 a month, or $999 for a year of &#8220;101&#8221;-style classes typically  taken by freshmen, ranging from mathematics to English to business  statistics.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<br \/>\nI congratulate StraighterLine at being <strong>innovative<\/strong> &#8212; at making <strong>a college education much more accessible\/affordable. <\/strong>As of November 1, 2010, StraighterLine continues to be the best candidate for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/~dsc8\/walmartofeducation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the Forthcoming Walmart of Education.<\/a> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when a year of college can cost as much as a luxury car, StraighterLine Inc. offers a cheap alternative: online courses starting at $138 a month, or $999 for a year of &#8220;101&#8221;-style classes typically taken by freshmen, ranging from mathematics to English to business statistics. . From DSC: I congratulate StraighterLine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,180,239,62],"tags":[290,661,251,601,572],"class_list":["post-11060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-innovation","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-innovation","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-online-learning","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11065,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions\/11065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}