Unbundling Faculty Roles in Online Distance Education Programs

Many colleges and universities are expanding their current online offerings and creating new programs to address growing enrollment. Institutions often utilize online education as a method to serve more students while lowering instructional costs. While online education may be more cost effective i...

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Autores principales:	Patricia W. Neely, Jan P. Tucker
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2010
Materias:	Faculty roles unbundling higher education online education faculty costs Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/e3bf3f90c32144c7b0bc73e9f8927385
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e3bf3f90c32144c7b0bc73e9f89273852021-12-02T12:17:08ZUnbundling Faculty Roles in Online Distance Education Programs1492-3831https://doaj.org/article/e3bf3f90c32144c7b0bc73e9f89273852010-05-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/798/1543https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Many colleges and universities are expanding their current online offerings and creating new programs to address growing enrollment. Institutions often utilize online education as a method to serve more students while lowering instructional costs. While online education may be more cost effective in some situations, college decision makers need to consider the full range of cost implications associated with these online offerings. The unbundling of faculty roles in online distance education programs is one cost consideration that is often overlooked. As the faculty role has become more distributed, so have the costs associated with providing instruction and instructional support. This paper reviews the hidden costs associated with the unbundling of the faculty role and presents a framework for calculating the true costs of the unbundled faculty role.Patricia W. NeelyJan P. TuckerAthabasca University PressarticleFaculty rolesunbundlinghigher educationonline educationfaculty costsSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 11, Iss 2 (2010)
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description	Many colleges and universities are expanding their current online offerings and creating new programs to address growing enrollment. Institutions often utilize online education as a method to serve more students while lowering instructional costs. While online education may be more cost effective in some situations, college decision makers need to consider the full range of cost implications associated with these online offerings. The unbundling of faculty roles in online distance education programs is one cost consideration that is often overlooked. As the faculty role has become more distributed, so have the costs associated with providing instruction and instructional support. This paper reviews the hidden costs associated with the unbundling of the faculty role and presents a framework for calculating the true costs of the unbundled faculty role.
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Unbundling Faculty Roles in Online Distance Education Programs

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