Cheap, Accredited Online Degrees... Where are the windfalls?

[miah]

I understand all that, and since my older son just did the Straighterline route, I know how amazing that is, and I recommend it often. It's not for my younger son. I have one year until he's 18, and I'm going to use that year to keep him motivated and get him through the program. The new Ashworth platform seems rather user friendly, and while he's only halfway through his first course, he's gaining confidence and feeling more motivated. I am going to continue encouraging him, as this is his best option for now.

I hear they've streamlined a lot of things and now they use a more condensed e-text format for some classes, so maybe it's not like it used to be. I just know that I still have a 4 foot stack of textbooks from my old Ashworth program sitting in my closet. There was so much reading, smh. I enjoyed it, but it was tiresome. At the time, I had come over from Ashford University where we only used like 1/4th of the textbook, took few exams, and spent most of the time in forum discussions. I had the assumption that all of online schooling was subpar and lacking in workload like that. Ashworth quickly taught me a lesson not to assume, lol.

Well, if the materials are now in an e-text format, if the student has a reading disability, it should be easier for them to "ear read" AKA "listen" along with the books/materials instead of solely reading it by sight, which should help to level the playing field for them with the reading work load you were noting.