ABSTRACT

Dissecting in detail the arguments underlying the costs and economics of open and distance learning, this text should give the reader an insight and the confidence to cost their own open and distance learning projects.

chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|6 pages

Budgets

chapter 3|8 pages

The classification of resources

chapter 6|9 pages

The treatment of capital costs

chapter 7|14 pages

Overheads

chapter 8|9 pages

Attribution of costs to joint products

chapter 9|4 pages

The activity of costing

chapter 10|14 pages

Designing courses

chapter 11|15 pages

Media: text, audio, video and computing

chapter 12|13 pages

Student support

chapter 13|41 pages

Cost-efficiency

chapter 14|20 pages

Cost effectiveness

chapter 15|12 pages

Cost benefit

chapter 16|10 pages

Costs, prices, demand and funding

chapter 17|2 pages

Conclusions