Online Education
The Messy Conversation Around Online Cost and Quality
Author: Ray Schroeder
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By Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
Asked to explain how they balance financial and academic considerations, administrators and professors say quality is key but struggle to define it. Justin Ortagus’ new study “‘Like Having a Tiger by the Tail’: A Qualitative Analysis of the Provision of Online Education in Higher Education,” published in Teachers College Record, examines (and tries to make sense of) the complicated and often conflicting perspectives of 22 administrators, professors and instructional designers at three research universities with significant online offerings.