Is your homeschooler ready for college but not ready to go into debt for basic undergraduate college courses?  With technology innovations converging rapidly (e-books, e-readers, ubiquitous high speed internet, video education websites, etc.), its time for a new business model for online education.   As homeschoolers, we are already familiar with alternative learning strategies, and StraigherLine course delivery offers some very impressive benefits over traditional colleges.  The two differentiators are price and convenience.   At $399 per course or $99 per month, students can take ‘cut and dried’ courses like College Algebra, Economics and Accounting completely online and take up to six months to complete course work.  Online tutoring is packaged with each course and provides (in some cases) 24/7 access to live tutoring sessions.  The best thing about this option is that a few colleges are already accepting StraighterLine courses as transfer credits, making StraighterLine a viable alternative to expensive traditional college tuition fees for run of the mill foundation courses.  Although there have been questions on course quality and professor qualifications, many traditional U.S. college undergraduate courses are taught in auditoriums containing hundreds of students and the ‘professor’ is often a teaching assistant.  Hopefully,  StraighterLine and U.S colleges will continue to create partnerships that add value to each other, so that students get affordable, convenient, and quality education.

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