Comments on: Grad School http://www.tarkblog.org/general/371 The personal writings of Caleb and Annie Tennis Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:50:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Caleb http://www.tarkblog.org/general/371#comment-1053 Caleb Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:38:07 +0000 http://www.tarkblog.org/general/371#comment-1053 Exactly. The only physical service the school provides is the provision of a teaching assistant who is there to answer questions and grade papers. It also covers the cost of mailing things to the student, be it lecture notes or just the tests for the class. The proctoring for tests isn't provided - you have to set that up yourself with someone at your company. So basically if there were 20 offsite students (note that all of these were "real" classes with students sitting listening. They simply record the lectures and notes for us "remote" students) that's almost $60,000 for just providing real video of the class! Exactly. The only physical service the school provides is the provision of a teaching assistant who is there to answer questions and grade papers. It also covers the cost of mailing things to the student, be it lecture notes or just the tests for the class. The proctoring for tests isn’t provided - you have to set that up yourself with someone at your company.

So basically if there were 20 offsite students (note that all of these were “real” classes with students sitting listening. They simply record the lectures and notes for us “remote” students) that’s almost $60,000 for just providing real video of the class!

]]> By: robbat2 http://www.tarkblog.org/general/371#comment-1052 robbat2 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:37:14 +0000 http://www.tarkblog.org/general/371#comment-1052 How the hell do they justify even $533 per credit hour? Their costs per hour do not have a linear growth with online courses. They can pack in many students. How the hell do they justify even $533 per credit hour?
Their costs per hour do not have a linear growth with online courses. They can pack in many students.

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