Monday, December 21, 2009

New Podcast Available Addressing Key Benefits Of StraighterLine’s Online Education Program

StraighterLine (www.straighterline.com), a new online apprenticeship band-aid that provides acceptance a top quality, bigger supported, and lower amount way to access academy credits through regionally accepted colleges and universities, has appear the absolution of a podcast discussing the key allowances of its state-of-art casework and online advance offerings. In the podcast, Ryan Busch, administrator of StraighterLine, discusses how the aggregation helps accouter acceptance with the all-important abilities to graduate, what separates the aggregation from its competitors and how StraighterLine apprenticeship compares with that of a acceptable brick-and-mortar college.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, added than 30 percent of academy acceptance leave afterwards their aboriginal year and about 50 percent never alum due to a acceleration in banking pressures and a abridgement of preparation, a allotment of added reasons. With StraighterLine, acceptance can baddest to crop a individual advance for $399 or use the CaaS (“College as a Service”) archetypal which allows them to acceptance all SL courses for $99 per ages with no start-up costs and no time absolute for advance completion.

StraighterLine aswell represents the alone online apprenticeship antecedent accouterment up to 24/7 on-demand advisory guidance. The affairs leverages SMARTHINKING’s online tutors, which to date accept provided added that 1 actor apprenticeship sessions to academy students. SMARTHINKING, founded in 1999 and the ancestor aggregation of StraighterLine, is an award-winning bazaar baton in accouterment online apprenticeship and bookish abutment to students. It launched the StraighterLine analysis in May 2008.

StraighterLine will focus initially on four entry-level class courses area acclaim can be transferred: College Algebra, English Composition, Economics 101 and Accounting 101. More courses are planned for the future. Courses completed through the StraighterLine affairs can be awarded academy acclaim by regionally accepted accomplice colleges. Student-earned credits may aswell be transferred to non-partner colleges that admit the StraighterLine’s partner’s courses as agnate programs.

The podcast is now accessible for download at: www.mmimarketing.com/files/keybenefitsofstraighterline.mp3

Related Links:
www.straighterline.com
www.smarthinking.com
www.mmimarketing.com/blog/?author=straighterline
www.mmimarketing.com/files/keybenefitsofstraighterline.mp3

Quotes:
“College dropout ante accommodate a amount of altered tragedies,” said Busch. “First, the amount of acceptance that do not complete academy is dramatic. Second, the amount of acceptance that appear to academy not accessible for academy akin plan is acutely high. And lastly, the amount of acceptance that auspiciously complete adorning courses is decidedly low. StraighterLine offers today’s apprentice a different befalling to accompany a academy amount on their own agreement of adaptability and affordability. It has the abeyant to actualize a absolute change in some of our nation’s a lot of arduous obstacles aural college education.”

About StraighterLine:
StraighterLine provides acceptance with a new online advantage for accepting appropriate academy credits from accepted colleges and universities. StraighterLine’s affordable courses are the aboriginal to cover up to 24/7 live, on-demand instruction. StraighterLine offers six entry-level academy courses, including College Algebra, English Composition I, Accounting I, Accounting II, Economics I: Macroeconomics and Economics II: Microeconomics, and two adorning courses, with abounding added planned. StraighterLine acceptance may accept to accept acclaim from StraighterLine’s regionally accepted accomplice colleges. Student-earned credits may aswell be communicable to non-partner colleges that admit StraighterLine’s partner’s courses as agnate programs. There are no set due dates for StraighterLine courses. Students may alpha and stop at any point with up to six months of access. StraighterLine offers two arresting appraisement programs; alone courses amount alone $399, cover 10 hours of one-on-one advisory support, and acquiesce up to six months of access; and the StraighterLine for $99 program: a $99 per ages cable with no added start-up costs which includes absolute acceptance to any and all courses one at a time, additional 10 absolute hours of one-on-one advisory support, with no minimum or best time absolute for advance completion. For added information, appointment www.straighterline.com or alarm 202-507-7020 or 1-877-str8erline (1-877-787-8375).

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
919-233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC

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