March 4, 2005

Offering Courses Online Can Save Colleges Money, 2 Texas Studies Find

By DAN CARNEVALE

It costs less to deliver college courses online, on average, than to teach them in a traditional face-to-face environment, according to two studies conducted by the University of Texas System.

Officials of UT Telecampus, the university's online component, conducted the studies at the behest of the Board of Regents, which wanted to make sure that the system was not wasting money by teaching courses over the Internet.

The studies, one using data from 2002 and the other using 2003

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