In November, Technically Baltimore reported that StraighterLine founder and CEO Burck Smith had something big hiding up his sleeve. OK, so IT — a tool that would allow college professors to set prices for their own online courses on StraighterLine — wasn’t really hiding so much as it hadn’t been officially rolled out yet.
Now that tool, Professor Direct, is up and running, as The Chronicle of Higher Education reports, allowing “instructors [to] determine not only how much to charge for such courses, but also how much time they want to devote to services like office hours, online tutorials, and responding to students’ e-mails.”
As for the pricing model: Smith is true to his word, and professors can charge whatever they want for courses, provided it’s more than StraighterLine’s base price-per-course of $49. So an instructor charging $100 for her math class will make $51.
Oh, and, three cheers for StraighterLine unveiling its redesigned website.
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