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

Budgets; the classification of resources; a basic framework for analyzing revenue costs; volume and its relationship with fixed and variable costs; the treatment of capital costs; overheads; attribution of costs to joint products; the activity of costing; designing courses; media - text, audio, video and computing; student support; cost-efficiency; cost effectiveness; cost benefit; costs, prices, demand and funding.