B urck Smith, CEO at Straighterline, discusses his approach to solving the skyrocketing cost of college with low-cost online courses built to transfer to over 90 accredited colleges. Smith, along with nearly 900 participants, including some 250 global education companies, was in New York for the BMO Capital Markets 15th Annual Back to School Education Conference. Dr. Berger, in collaboration with MindRocket Media Group and edCircuit captured views from business leaders to investors taking a look behind the scenes of investment in education and technology.
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Burck Smith is the founder of StraighterLine, which offers low-cost online courses designed to transfer to accredited colleges. Before that Smith co-founded the online tutoring company Smarthinking and led it as CEO from 1999 to 2009. In this 2015 edCircuit interview, recorded at the BMO Capital Markets education conference, Smith, then CEO, explained how StraighterLine addresses the rising cost of college.