Tag: Funding

Reducing Costs through Online Learning: Five Proven Strategies from the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

Contact North. (2013). Reducing Costs through Online Learning: Five Proven Strategies from the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

A companion document to Online Learning as a Possible Cost Saving Measure: What Canadian Researchers Tell Us, this report outlines five successful cost-saving strategies related to online learning within the post-secondary and higher-education sectors. Although the focus of the report is on cost-containment or cost reduction through online learning within larger institutions, these strategies, particularly with regard to improved teaching and learning efficiency and cost reduction in the areas of development and support, through the use of shared services are relevant to language training programs at every level.

Retrievable from: http://teachonline.ca/online-learning-news-may-8-2013

 

Online Learning as a Possible Cost Saving Measure: What Canadian Researchers Tell Us.

Contact North. (2014). Online Learning as a Possible Cost Saving Measure: What Canadian Researchers Tell Us.

A review of Canadian research, in the form of web-available reports, articles, blogs, and case studies, focused on the cost-effectiveness of online learning in the post-secondary education sector. The review identifies recurring themes in the literature, including the need to measure the costs of classroom delivery in order to develop viable comparative studies and the need to connect cost-effectiveness or cost savings with quality of content and delivery as the development of high-quality online learning can require considerable investment. According to the review there is a scarcity of research and data related to costs and the cost-effectiveness of online learning.

Retrievable from: http://teachonline.ca/tools-trends/assessing-online-learning-costs-and-savings/online-learning-possible-cost-saving-measure-what-canadian-researchers-tell-us