To the extent that educational background is a factor in my hiring decisions, I would be more likely hire a person that succeeded at an educational program like Straighterline than somebody that went to a standard four year institution. Why? The choice demonstrates an ability to improvise -- in that they were able to see the advantages of a $99 education vs. something equivalent at 100 times the cost. It's also because they demonstrated an ability to operate successfully within an online work environment -- which, despite it quickly becoming the critical job skill of the 21st Century, is something that traditional colleges don't teach and most workers are terrible at.
Here's a great article on the school by Kevin Carey at the Washington Monthly on Straighterline, and how the educational establishment is successfully resisting it. This resistance will halt progress until the prolonged economic failure of the global middle class makes the switch to online education (in this price range) inexorable.
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