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The Advantages of E-structors at StraighterLine
When you pay top dollar for a college education, you expect your instructors to be high quality as well, right? But some startling data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics notes that what you anticipate from post-secondary institutions is often not what you receive.
For example, did you know that:
• About 30 percent of college and university faculty worked just part time in 2006?
• Of the nearly 1.7 million post-secondary teachers that year, nearly 10 percent of them (approximately 144,000) were graduate teaching assistants rather than full-fledged faculty members?
• In some cases, the Bureau reported, these teaching assistants “have full responsibility for teaching a course—usually one that is introductory—which can include preparation of lectures and exams, and assigning final grades to students.” The Bureau added that “Work may be stressful, particularly when assistants are given full responsibility for teaching a class.”
• Even for full-time teachers on the faculty, pressures are limiting their effectiveness. The Bureau stated that “University faculty may experience a conflict between their responsibilities to teach students and the pressure to do research and publish their findings. This may be a particular problem for young faculty seeking advancement in 4-year research universities. Also, recent cutbacks in support workers and the hiring of more part-time faculty have put a greater administrative burden on full-time faculty.”
With a college education costing you tens of thousands of dollars these days, do you really want to rely on learning from such compromised instructors? Do you think you deserve less than the best for your money?
If not, consider what we at StraighterLine present to you. Our parent company, SMARTHINKING, Inc., supplies us with the use of their online instructors, also known as “e-structors,” who are certified tutors ready to help any of our students 24/7 who have a question regarding one of our entry-level college courses they are studying via the Internet. Almost all of our e-structors have earned advanced degrees, and several of them have multiple certifications up to the Ph.D. level.
Many of these e-structors have been with SMARTHINKING for nearly a decade or more, which reflects their interest in and commitment to helping students online. Several organizations have honored them for the excellence of their instructions, most recently the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. We are so proud and confident in them that we display some information about who our tutors are and their educational background on the SMARTHINKING Web site.
Solid, qualified instructors ready any time of the day any day of the week is just one way we at StraighterLine stand apart from “typical” introductory college course studying. To recognize many others, visit us at www.straighterline.com.
For example, did you know that:
• About 30 percent of college and university faculty worked just part time in 2006?
• Of the nearly 1.7 million post-secondary teachers that year, nearly 10 percent of them (approximately 144,000) were graduate teaching assistants rather than full-fledged faculty members?
• In some cases, the Bureau reported, these teaching assistants “have full responsibility for teaching a course—usually one that is introductory—which can include preparation of lectures and exams, and assigning final grades to students.” The Bureau added that “Work may be stressful, particularly when assistants are given full responsibility for teaching a class.”
• Even for full-time teachers on the faculty, pressures are limiting their effectiveness. The Bureau stated that “University faculty may experience a conflict between their responsibilities to teach students and the pressure to do research and publish their findings. This may be a particular problem for young faculty seeking advancement in 4-year research universities. Also, recent cutbacks in support workers and the hiring of more part-time faculty have put a greater administrative burden on full-time faculty.”
With a college education costing you tens of thousands of dollars these days, do you really want to rely on learning from such compromised instructors? Do you think you deserve less than the best for your money?
If not, consider what we at StraighterLine present to you. Our parent company, SMARTHINKING, Inc., supplies us with the use of their online instructors, also known as “e-structors,” who are certified tutors ready to help any of our students 24/7 who have a question regarding one of our entry-level college courses they are studying via the Internet. Almost all of our e-structors have earned advanced degrees, and several of them have multiple certifications up to the Ph.D. level.
Many of these e-structors have been with SMARTHINKING for nearly a decade or more, which reflects their interest in and commitment to helping students online. Several organizations have honored them for the excellence of their instructions, most recently the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. We are so proud and confident in them that we display some information about who our tutors are and their educational background on the SMARTHINKING Web site.
Solid, qualified instructors ready any time of the day any day of the week is just one way we at StraighterLine stand apart from “typical” introductory college course studying. To recognize many others, visit us at www.straighterline.com.
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