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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Online Learning: Who Needs a Professor When There's a Tutor Available? - Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education
An unusual new commercial service offers low-cost online courses and connects students to accredited colleges who will accept the courses for credit. The only thing missing: professors. The service, called StraighterLine, is run by SmartThinking, a company that operates an online tutoring service used by about 300 colleges and universities. The online courses offered by StraighterLine are self-guided, and if students run into trouble they can summon a tutor from SmartThiking and talk with them via instant messaging.
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