Costs of E-Learning Support: An Investigation Across 139 Small Projects

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Author(s): Carol Kahan Kennedy (Fordham University, USA)and Maureen Hinkley (Fairfield University, USA)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 16
Source title: Web-Based Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-963-7.ch093

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Web-Based Teaching & Learning

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Understanding the costing of e-learning informs decision-making on how to support the development and implementation of teaching and learning technologies in higher education. This paper describes costings and processes in a central e-learning support service that is especially applicable to face-to-face universities that use e-learning in a blended or supplemental mode. We differentiate three types of costs: infrastructure costs that are less sensitive to variation in the complexity of e-learning strategies, and edevelopment and e-delivery coststhat are directly related to the nature of the strategies used. Using actual data from a three-year e-learningsupport project (e3Learning) with 139 sub-projects, the paper illustrates how the calculations promote an understanding of e-learning in the following four dimensions: 1) total cost of running an e-learning support service, 2) individual costs attributable to each of the sub-projects, 3) ‘price-tags’ of e-learning strategies, and 4) initial exploration of the cost-effectiveness issue.

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