Online Education
What’s the Price of an Online Education?
Author: Ray Schroeder
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Mark Lieberman, Inside Higher Ed
How much students should pay for online programs varies widely from institution to institution. We’re not breaking any revelatory news in saying that college and university pricing is … less than straightforward. But it can be instructive to examine how institutions make decisions about pricing. Luke Dowden arrived at Alamo last year after eight years at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. There, his bosses expected his online programs to be self-supporting, and cost and price were aggressively monitored. At Alamo, he has pushed to establish a financial model that will inform further pricing decisions.