StraighterLine welcomes Professor AIMEE P MCKINNEY as New Faculty Member

Jan. 3, 2013 - PRLog -- BALTIMORE, MD – StraighterLine (www.straighterline.com) announced today that Professor Aimee P. McKinney has joined the growing list of proven educators who are leading online college courses at StraighterLine. StraighterLine students now have the choice of 3 different for-credit course types: self-paced courses with or without a professor, or cohort-based courses led by a professor.  
Professor McKinney is currently a Business Faculty Member at Potomac College in Washington DC. She also serves as an Academic Team Member, and as part of Potomac’s Self-Study Steering Committee. She has taught a wide variety of Business and Leadership Courses both on-ground and online. Professor McKinney also has extensive experience working with children in Loudoun County Public Schools and worked for many years in marketing and business leadership roles in both a small online e-Learning company and a large pharmaceutical company.   Professor McKinney has over 10 years of experience teaching as a faculty member at a variety of public and private colleges.  She also has over 17 years of business experience with a specialization in marketing, launching new products, management and overall business operations. Professor McKinney’s strong business background, as well her teaching experience, has led to her success in implementing a well rounded approach to learning at many levels.  Professor McKinney will be teaching a variety of Business, Marketing and Communications courses in the Business Department at StraighterLine.

As online education continues to evolve, an increasing number of professors are joining programs that allow them to reach more students than they ever could under the confines of a traditional brick and mortar institution. The new Professor Direct program at StraighterLine allows professors to connect with students directly through an online course catalog and course delivery platform, as well as providing participating educators with new revenue opportunities. All StraighterLine courses are developed with guidance from qualified faculty and each has passed the American Council on Education’s (ACE) CREDIT Recommendation Course Review process.

With the addition of professor-led courses, StraighterLine has increased the ways that its students can get a quality education online, flexibly and conveniently, at a substantially lower cost than most traditional degree programs. Students can take college prep, freshman and introductory-level classes through StraighterLine and save thousands of dollars on the cost of their college degree. With StraighterLine’s affordable subscription pricing plan, students can save up to 90% on their first year of college and can move through the material as quickly or slowly as they like.

StraighterLine offers entry-level college courses online in Business, English, Humanities, Math and Science, as well as College Prep, with Foreign Languages coming soon. In addition, StraighterLine offers a wide variety of CBEs (credit-by-examination) that allow students to earn college credit based on test scores.

About StraighterLine

StraighterLine has been recognized as a revolutionizing force in education by major news organizations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for offering students online courses that earn real college credit for just $99 a month. Inside Higher Ed recognized StraighterLine for offering the “...lowest-cost set of credit-bearing courses on the Internet.” And Fast Company named StraighterLine one of the “10 Most Innovative Companies in Education.”

In order to facilitate the award of credit, StraighterLine has forged partnerships with leading accredited online colleges and universities. A student ultimately earns a degree from those institutions but realizes tremendous savings and convenience by starting with StraighterLine.

StraighterLine’s courses are evaluated and recommended by the American Council on Education’s College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT), which includes over 2,000 participating colleges and universities. In addition to the institutions with which StraighterLine has a direct relationship, more than 300 other schools are reported to have accepted StraighterLine coursework for transfer credit.

Currently, StraighterLine offers entry-level college courses online in the Sciences, Humanities, English, Math and Business. Many StraighterLine courses are now offered in both self-paced and professor-led formats. 5 StraighterLine courses have been approved by The College Board to be listed as AP courses: AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, AP English Language and Composition, AP Calculus AB and AP Psychology. Recently, StraighterLine began offering a wide variety of credit-by-examinations that let students earn college credit based on test scores.

For information, visit http://www.straighterline.com/courses-run-by-professors/aimee-mckinney.html?subid=REPD000317 or call 1-877-str8erline (1-877-787-8375).