Hi, I really love your company and believe that you’re what’s next in higher education.  I don’t care if it’s mopping or sweeping, I think that I should be working for/with you.  Let me know if we can work something out.

Cheers,

Joe

And that’s the short version of how I found myself newly employed at Straighterline.com as course manager.  Am I stoked?  You have no idea.

To borrow from my previous post, the win here is “efficiency + quality + freedom = a better way for motivated learners to get degrees“. Having looked through the courses already I can attest to the quality (and guarantee that the quality is going to improve based on student feedback and will be updated as we grow as a company).  Additionally the LMS integration with tutoring and a real course advisor leaves very small chance that a learner will feel isolated online.  Paired with real feedback on assignments submission (writing) and instant feedback from tests it creates a very efficient learning environment for the student.

Here’s some recent coverage we got by a local DC news outlet:

Just ticked off a big one.