Straighterline New Course reviews

[Ace_King]

You're right about the textbook needed, well at least for Western Civilization. I tried without it , first two tests 70. I said nah ah, so I got the text book and passed the following exams perfect score. All the answers are in the textbook easily!

[meck]

This is my review of straighterline.com

At first I was excited to hear about Straighterline.com. Cheap online classes is exactly what I was looking for. Seven hundred dollars later, I've finally completed my first class and my opinion of the company has deeply soured due to the following issues....

One dimensional:
I took their Economics course (ECON 101 - Macroeconomics). Here's what the course entailed. 1) Read 19 chapters. 2) Take 21 multiple choice tests. I could have received the same education by simply purchasing the textbook for $5 off ebay and answering the multiple choice questions at the end of each chapter.

Easy to cheat:
Eventually I got curious and, after I was finished with a test, I googled some of the questions and nearly every one of the searches ended with a link to the exact question coinciding with the correct answer. And because all you need to do to get an A in a class is to correctly answer multiple choice questions from the comfort of your couch; it's insanely easy to cheat and not get caught.
(For the record: I was taking the class to learn and not for the grade, so I didn't actually cheat.) But I doubt it will take long for people to start taking advantage of this system and straighterline classes will soon be discredited nation wide.

28 day billing cycle:
I found this to be very tricky. The average month has 30.4 days. That's about 2 and a half days every month they jip you of. 2.4 x 12 months = 28.8 days. So over a year, they sneak an extra monthly charge out of you.

If you do decide to take a class...
Prepare to
1) be completely on your own,
2) spend A LOT of time reading. I mean A LOT.
3) pay much more than you expected
4) live with the serious possibility that their classes will be discredited eventually.

[sanantone]

How did you spend $700 on one course.

[Tasman]

You've already reviewed with the exact same quote on another thread

This is my review of straighterline.com

At first I was excited to hear about Straighterline.com. Cheap online classes is exactly what I was looking for. Seven hundred dollars later, I've finally completed my first class and my opinion of the company has deeply soured due to the following issues....

One dimensional:
I took their Economics course (ECON 101 - Macroeconomics). Here's what the course entailed. 1) Read 19 chapters. 2) Take 21 multiple choice tests. I could have received the same education by simply purchasing the textbook for $5 off ebay and answering the multiple choice questions at the end of each chapter.

Easy to cheat:
Eventually I got curious and, after I was finished with a test, I googled some of the questions and nearly every one of the searches ended with a link to the exact question coinciding with the correct answer. And because all you need to do to get an A in a class is to correctly answer multiple choice questions from the comfort of your couch; it's insanely easy to cheat and not get caught.
(For the record: I was taking the class to learn and not for the grade, so I didn't actually cheat.) But I doubt it will take long for people to start taking advantage of this system and straighterline classes will soon be discredited nation wide.

28 day billing cycle:
I found this to be very tricky. The average month has 30.4 days. That's about 2 and a half days every month they jip you of. 2.4 x 12 months = 28.8 days. So over a year, they sneak an extra monthly charge out of you.

If you do decide to take a class...
Prepare to
1) be completely on your own,
2) spend A LOT of time reading. I mean A LOT.
3) pay much more than you expected
4) live with the serious possibility that their classes will be discredited eventually.

[INDENT]How did you spend $700 and only complete one class?

S'line tells you what the evaluation criteria involved is when you check out the course info.
The only way you are going to learn through s'line is by reading the prescribed text.
28 days billing cycle...28 days is 28 days. 12 months of the year eg Jan to Dec, but 52 weeks divided by 4 weeks equal 13 months.
If you don't want to be on your own that is when you attend class [/INDENT]

[dmar001]

I know this is an older thread but its your own fault to dilly dally on a course and end up paying $700 for a class. In my experience with online classes they're marketed towards the mature adult that knows what needs to be done. You need complete discipline and to be resourceful to finish a course. Once you are out in the real world your boss may have you to figure out a problem and you need to be resourceful thinking outside the box to tackle that problem.

Online learning is not for a young kid fresh out of highschool thinking because its online its easier believe me when I say it "ITS NOT". Online classes are much more difficult then the classes I took when I attended a BM. The reality is you can get the same education from reading a book. The difference is attending college level classes whether online or in person are meant to challenge you beyond the text. Also by completing them you get an acknowledgement that you completed them such as receiving college credits.

You don't have to read the entire chapter word by word to understand it there are websites such as khanacademy that show videos on the subject and you reference the text for further understanding on a topic that you are not grasping.