The Costs and Economics of Open and Distance Learning

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.

Greville Rumble

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Budgets; Chapter 3 The Classification of Resources; Chapter 4 A Basic Framework for Analysing Revenue Costs; Chapter 5 Volume and its Relationship with Fixed and Variable Costs; Chapter 6 The Treatment of Capital Costs; Chapter 7 Overheads; Chapter 8 Attribution of Costs to Joint Products; Chapter 9 The Activity of Costing; Chapter 10 Designing Courses; Chapter 11 Media:; Chapter 12 Student Support; Chapter 13 Cost-Efficiency; Chapter 14 Cost Effectiveness; Chapter 15 Cost Benefit; Chapter 16 Costs, Prices, Demand and Funding; Chapter 17 Conclusions;