This type of smug response to online education (or alternative education) is frustrating.
It still seems that for-profit and education is taboo in American society...
If Apple can be for-profit and dedicate itself to quality technology products and services why can't a similar company apply their focus to quality, technology, and education?
I see StraigterLine as a small step in that direction. If you don't like where this is headed, I suggest you start donating more money to your Alma Mater - to secure your family spot the old fashioned, nepotistic way.
More importantly, this is going to be a long, iterative process with some missteps along the way (UOP et al).
A case can be made that UOP and its peers invest more money in maintaining enrollment pipelines than the actual education technologies and infrastructures. Which is all the more reason for other upstarts to take advantage of an opportunity...
Online access to higher education has huge potential to redefine the status quo, and that evolution in education requires hackers to keep pushing the needle.
It still seems that for-profit and education is taboo in American society...
If Apple can be for-profit and dedicate itself to quality technology products and services why can't a similar company apply their focus to quality, technology, and education?
I see StraigterLine as a small step in that direction. If you don't like where this is headed, I suggest you start donating more money to your Alma Mater - to secure your family spot the old fashioned, nepotistic way.
More importantly, this is going to be a long, iterative process with some missteps along the way (UOP et al).
A case can be made that UOP and its peers invest more money in maintaining enrollment pipelines than the actual education technologies and infrastructures. Which is all the more reason for other upstarts to take advantage of an opportunity...
Online access to higher education has huge potential to redefine the status quo, and that evolution in education requires hackers to keep pushing the needle.