StraighterLine today announced that it is building a "next generation market" for its low-price online offerings, according to a news release. Burck Smith, the founder and CEO, said via e-mail that ...

To students, starting college for $99 a month sounds like a deal. To wonks wrapped up in soaring tuition and declining financial aid, it may sound like a solution. That’s how a company called ...

StraighterLine has released two new online courses for higher ed, IT Fundamentals and Survey of World History. Each three-credit course has received credit recommendation from the American Council on ...

As alternatives to the college diploma have been bandied about recently, one question always seems to emerge: How do you validate badges or individual classes as a credential in the absence of a ...

Imagine if the first year of college, you took courses entirely online and potentially saved yourself thousands of dollars. StraighterLine wants you to imagine that future. Yesterday, I wrote a story ...

StraighterLine has has added five new science courses and four new science professors to its science department, bringing the online college course provider's total number of available science courses ...

Like most colleges, online institutions are under pressure to improve their graduation rates. Some are getting more selective about which students they admit, turning away those who appear less likely ...

After putting off finishing her college degree for more than two decades, Elizabeth Smith this year needed just one more class — an algebra course — to earn her bachelor’s degree in theater arts. The ...