An online university built around work has a curious incentive: help graduate students finish sooner, and collect less tuition. The hard part is making the degree worth finishing.
Study.com is a Mountain View-based online learning platform that breaks subjects into short, animated video lessons and college-credit-eligible courses. Founded in 2002 by Adrian Ridner and Ben Wilson, it now serves more than 30 million learners, teachers and working adults each month, with one of the largest catalogs of ACE-approved courses of any provider. Its mission is to make education accessible and affordable - especially for the underserved students its founder once was.