{"id":89970,"date":"2013-05-12T06:13:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T12:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89970"},"modified":"2013-05-12T06:13:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T12:13:54","slug":"online-education-trumps-the-cost-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89970","title":{"rendered":"Online Education Trumps the Cost Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/04\/online-education-trumps-the-cost-disease.html?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Tabarrok<\/a> reports from the field.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a large, randomized experiment Bowen et al. found that students enrolled in an online\/hybrid statistics course learned just as much as those taking a traditional class (noted earlier by Tyler). Perhaps even more importantly, Bowen et al. found that the online model was significantly less costly than the traditional model, some 36% to 57% less costly to produce than a course using a traditional lecture format. In other words, since outcomes were the same, online education increased productivity by 56% to 133%! Online education trumps the cost disease!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Tabarrok reports from the field. In a large, randomized experiment Bowen et al. found that students enrolled in an online\/hybrid statistics course learned just as much as those taking a traditional class (noted earlier by Tyler). Perhaps even more importantly, Bowen et al. found that the online model was significantly less costly than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89972,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89970\/revisions\/89972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}