Cost and Financing Challenges in E-learning: Strategies for Sustainability

By:
James Banji Fadokun,
Dr. P.K Ojedele
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E-Learning is the confluence of many technology-based learning opportunities. It enhances the ability of educators to address different audiences and allow them to diversify their teaching styles. In the last few years, e-learning has been perceived to be the spring board for lifelong learning, where learners learn how to seek out new information, think critically and show initiatives.However, e-learning is not a cheap alternative to face to face teaching. Indeed the financing of e-learning raises many questions for policy makers. The creation of quality materials creates a cost dilemma for many institutions since it has high variable and fixed cost and this makes it difficult for economies of scale to be achieved. This paper looks at cost and financing issues in e-learning, the challenges of cost reduction and strategies for sustainable funding.


Keywords: Cost, E-Learning, Open and Distance Learning, Finance
Stream: Managing and Leading Educational Change
Presentation Type: Virtual Presentation in English
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James Banji Fadokun

Research and Training Fellow, Research and Training Department, National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration
Ondo, Ondo, Nigeria

James Banji Fadokun is a Research and Training Fellow at the National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration, Nigeria. He is a consultant and professional trainer at several national and international seminars on Education Management, HIV/AIDS issues. He has been involved in many researches on education at the national level in Nigeria. He is the Project Coordinator of ‘Accelerating the Education Sector Response to HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, which is capacity building efforts supported by the Federal Ministry of Education, Nigeria, UNAIDS Inter Agency Task Team for Education and the Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College of Medicine, United Kingdom. His areas of specialization are Higher education management, Human Resources Management, Gender and HIV/AIDS issues.

Dr. P.K Ojedele

Deputy Director, Research and Training, Federal Ministry of Education
Ondo, Nigeria

Dr P.K Ojedele is Deputy Director at the National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration,Nigeria.He is a consultant to many International Agencies in Nigeria on Education Sector Analysis,School-Based Management as well as Monitoring and Evaluation.He has a background in Educational Management and has written extensively in this areas.

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