| Timing |
Content |
Week
0:
Thursday, January, 18. to Wednesday, January,
24 | Preweek: (read
only)
- How to prepare for this course. |
Week 1:
Thursday, January, 25. to Wednesday, January, 31
| Introduction:
- How to get through this course;
- getting to know each other;
- getting acquainted with the learning environment.
Module
1: The Expansion of Education and the Emergence of the Economics of Education
-Debate: 'Education: panacea or palliative?'
-Exploring the rising demand
for education and soaring costs;
-'Human Capital Theory' and the emergence
of economics of education;
-What distance education may offer.
-Group
task: Using the GED Database |
Week 2:
Thursday, February, 01 to Wednesday, February, 07. |
Module 1 (cont.)
-Using
the GED Database
Working
on group assignment |
Week
3:
Thursday, February, 08. to Wednesday, February,
14
| Module
2: The Techniques of Cost Analysis
-Budgets and the classification of
resources;
-Classification of costs;
-Economies of scale;
-Overheads
and the treatment of capital costs. |
|
Week 4:
Thursday, February, 15. to Wednesday, February, 21 |
Module 2 (cont.)
-Making use of spreadsheets for
cost-analysis; |
Week
5:
Thursday, February, 22. to Wednesday, February,
28 | Module 2 (cont.)
Working on assignments |
Week
6:
Thursday,
March, 01. to Wednesday, March, 07 | Module
2 (cont.)
Working on assignments
|
Week
7:
Thursday, March, 08. to Wednesday, March, 14 |
Module 3: The Cost-effectiveness of Distance Education
-Effectiveness and efficiency;
-Case study: the British
Open University; |
Week 8:
Thursday, March, 15. to Wednesday, March, 21 |
Module 3 (cont.)
Conference with
our visiting expert, Prof. Greville Rumble on the vulnerability of distance
teaching universities |
Week
9:
Thursday, March, 22. to Wednesday, March, 28 | Module
3 (cont.)
Working on assignment |
Week 10:
Thursday, March, 29. to Wednesday, April, 04
| Module 4: Costing
educational media and technologies: Traditional media:
-Bates ACTIONS
Model;
-Cost per learning time as an indicator to compare the costs of media;
-The cost-effectiveness of educational media and the media equivalency theory. |
Week 11:
Thursday, April, 05. to Wednesday, April, 11 | Module
4 (cont.)
-Cost of print
-Cost of radio and audio cassettes
-Cost
of television and video cassettes |
Week
12:
Thursday, April, 12. to Wednesday, April, 18 |
Module 5: Costing educational media and technologies:
E-Learning
-The impact of netbased learning on the cost-structure of
distance education'
-Synchronous types of e-learning
-Aynchronous types
of e-learning
Working on assignment |
Week 13:
Thursday, April, 19. to Wednesday, April, 25 |
Module 5 (cont.)
-
Recovering lost efficiencies: Learning objects
- Recovering lost efficiencies:
Cooperation
Working
on assignment |
Week 14:
Thursday, April, 26. to Wednesday, May, 03 |
Module 5 (cont.)
Conference with
our visiting expert, Prof. Tony Bates on technology and institutional
change in distance education
Working
on assignment |
Week
15:
Thursday, May, 04. to Wednesday, May, 10 |
Looking back and summing up |