{"id":1876,"date":"2010-02-26T13:17:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T18:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2010-02-26T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:06:26","slug":"is-this-the-forthcoming-walmart-of-education-that-ive-been-talking-about-perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/02\/26\/is-this-the-forthcoming-walmart-of-education-that-ive-been-talking-about-perhaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the &#8220;Forthcoming Walmart of Education&#8221; that I&#8217;ve been talking about&#8230;? Perhaps."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333399;\">In addition to the piece below, also see<strong> <a title=\"wpost\" href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/college-inc\/2010\/02\/college_for_99_a_month.html?wprss=college-inc\" target=\"_blank\">College for $99 a month<\/a> and <a title=\"wpost2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/25\/AR2010022506012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Online courses can reduce the costly sting of college.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Is StraighterLine.com the &#8220;<a title=\"Forthcoming Walmart of Education\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/~dsc8\/walmartofeducation.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Forthcoming Walmart of Education<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; that I&#8217;ve been talking about&#8230;? Perhaps. And please don&#8217;t get me wrong here. I am not referring to any of this in a derogatory sense. No no. In fact, whomever gets it right will have the best, most-sophisticated, interactive content around &#8212; and provided in a format that turns the control over to the students. All of this will be accompanied by 24x7x365 student support, the best systems\/infrastructure\/technologies, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Check out the following piece: <a title=\"Straighterline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/dpp\/money\/college-99-dollars-money-022310\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Can You Really Go to College for $99?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from Fox 5 News<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/dpp\/money\/college-99-dollars-money-022310\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1882\" title=\"college-for-less-straighterline-feb-2010\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/college-for-less-straighterline-feb-20102.jpg\" alt=\"Can you really go to college for $99 month?\" width=\"497\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/college-for-less-straighterline-feb-20102.jpg 497w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/college-for-less-straighterline-feb-20102-150x77.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: In addition to the piece below, also see College for $99 a month and Online courses can reduce the costly sting of college. Is StraighterLine.com the &#8220;Forthcoming Walmart of Education&#8221; that I&#8217;ve been talking about&#8230;? Perhaps. And please don&#8217;t get me wrong here. I am not referring to any of this in a [&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":[115,36,35,66,214],"tags":[603,572],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-student-related","category-universities","tag-student-related","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","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=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}