Cost of Learning

Cost of Learning

1. Identify E-Learning Costs

   • Through
     • Formal costing methodology ( Dennis Jones)
       • Designed to apply to variety of technology assisted delivery modes
         • Guides costs
         • Helps colleges to recognition of activities associated with their e-learning app
         • Identifies costs
         • Analyze the cost for categories according e-learning circumstances

2. Ways to Maximize Human Resources

   • Ensure that adjunct faculty members provide high-quality instruction
   • Use of previously developed courses
   • Guidance and support of faculty chairs
   • Structure resources for spent on teaching and learning activities

3. Policies to Help Contain Course Development

   • Involve many people for the design of the digital platform
   • Is necessary strategies to contain or justify the costs of developing electronic courses
   • Developing of
     • Fiscal advantages
       • Amortize the course development and production costs over thousands of students
     • Instructional advantages
       • Afford to invest significantly in the development of one excellent master course

4. Consider Scale and Scalability

   • Organization’s capacity to adequately y serve large and increasing numbers of e-learning students.
   • Is measured by the sheer number of students enrolled in it
   • A significant element in determining initial course development costs
   • Colleges with small numbers of e-learning enrollments can avoid the costs of expensive infrastructure

5. Redesign Large-Enrollment Courses to Reduce Cost and Improve Learning

   • Increase access
   • Reduce costs
   • Improve learning
   • Focus on improving student learning
   • Make detailed financial plans
   • Meet basic readiness criteria
   • Proof of the organization’s desire to reduce or control costs
   • An adequate information technology infrastructure
   • A commitment to learner-centered education