Report: No Cost Savings in Online Learning

Aug 26, 2019, 12:45 PM

(From Inside Higher Ed) Several years ago, dozens of smaller private colleges joined together to form the Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction to share upper level humanities courses. A recent report on the Consortium indicated that the majority of students (84%) reported feeling comfortable participating in in-class discussions online. The majority of instructors (56%), however, reported they were not able to form personal relationships with students in online courses similar to ones they would have in face-to-face interactions. Professors found that creating and teaching online courses took more time, not less, and as a general rule, the consortium's members did not find that their hoped-for cost savings materialized. They did find, though, that the course-sharing arrangement expanded their higher-level offerings in disciplines with small departments.

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