Scale, Cost and Effectiveness in University Distance Teaching
Chris Curran(Editor)
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Published on 28. June 2008
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-1-85972-468-2 (ISBN)
Description
Distance teaching programmes are now a significant and expanding component of university education. The importance of economies of scale in achieving unit costs comparable to those of conventional education is a recurrent theme in literature on large distance teaching universities. A rarely addressed question is whether small distance teaching universities which cannot avail themselves of the same economies of scale, can operate as efficiently given their relatively low levels of student enrolment. This text discusses whether there are alternative operational and institutional strategies which small distance teaching universities can adopt to prove as cost efficient as their larger counterparts. As the efficiency of the outputs of large and small distance teaching universities may differ with respect to the quality of their resources, this text considers the implications of such differences on learning and on the academic quality of the programmes offered.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, index
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85972-468-2 (9781859724682)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
DTUs - distance teaching universities development and characteristics; course development strategies in distance teaching universities; course production strategies in distance teaching universities; course delivery strategies in DTUs; efficiency, economies of scale and resource utilisation in DTUs; effectiveness and outcomes in DTUs; conclusions, interpretation of results and indications for further research.