Theodp writes "Writing in regimentation Monthly, Kevin Carey has seen the future of college education. It costs $99-a-month, and there's no limit on the number of courses you can take. Tiny online education firm StraighterLine is out to brave the seeming permanency of third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 colleges and universities. How? Like Craigslist, StraighterLine threatens the most profitable piece of its competitors' business: novice lectures, higher education's equivalent of the classified section. It's no surprise, then, that as StraighterLine tried to buck the system, the system began to push back, challenging deals the company struck with accredited ancestral and for-profit institutions to allow StraighterLine courses to be transferred for credit. But even if StraighterLine doesn't succeed in bringing extremely cheap college courses to the masses, it's likely that another player eventually will."

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