Monthly Archives: May 2011

Years ago, people went to night school if they wanted to pursue college studies while they were too busy working a job. There was something of a stigma to it, because the people who went to night school didn’t have enough money to go to a “real” college. 

The Instructional Technology Council has been monitoring the use of distance learning courses at community college for more than six years now. In a recent survey of 139 institutions, the Council determined that the use of distance learning courses is increasing quickly at community colleges. 

Prestigious colleges are famous for rejecting more than 90 percent of applicants. Online colleges are famous for letting everybody start. Which approach is better?

Why spend a fortune going to college when you can get $2 million worth of wisdom for free on the StraighterLine blog today?  

Here are eight success tips to help you with your online college courses.

What have you got on tap for this summer? A job or internship? Trekking in Costa Rica? Whatever it is, we have a guaranteed, sure-fire way to make your summer that much better . . .Enter the StraighterLine Summer Slam Contest

StraighterLine is proud to have been named a top educational innovator – and a “Spotlight Innovation” – in  “College 2.0: Transforming Higher Education through Smarter Innovation and Smarter Regulation,” a new report from the  Institute for a Competitive Workforce. 

Now that you are done with college, you might think that you can stop thinking about courses and classes for now. That could be the case – if your college really equipped you with all the skills and knowledge that you need to land that important first job after graduation. But if you start looking for a job and find that employers are asking for credentials, skills or knowledge that you didn’t gain in college, online courses could be the answer to those problems. 

As a service to people who are thinking of entering the medical and medical support professions, StraighterLine is launching a series of short posts on medical terminology. Each post will define one medical term. Today's term is Tinnitus. 

StraighterLine’s Summer Slam Contest offers you the chance to win a new iPad 2 while you are learning and taking summer college courses online towards your college degree. No need to jump out of a plane, eat boardwalk food, design a park or hammer nails. Sounds like a winning contest to us.

StraighterLine has just published an article about successful people who took distance learning courses. To learn more about them, CLICK HERE. 

You won’t find it mentioned on the front page of your home town newspaper or on the evening news, but The National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) has just released a document called The Space Availability Survey 2011. Considering the information that this document contains, it is surprising that it isn’t making front-page news. 

What should you take with you if you’ll be attending a high school or college graduation in the next few weeks? Here are some suggestions from the editors of the StraighterLine Straight Talk blog:

With every passing month and year, more and more organizations are jumping onto the online education bandwagon.  Just this week, the venerable New York Times announced plans to offer an expanded range of online courses.