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Can Online Learning Bend the Higher Education Cost Curve? / David J. Deming, Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz, Noam Yuchtman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deming, David J.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20890.
- NBER working paper series no. w20890
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.
- Summary:
- We examine whether online learning technologies have led to lower prices in higher education. Using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, we show that online education is concentrated in large for-profit chains and less-selective public institutions. Colleges with a higher share of online students charge lower tuition prices. We present evidence that real and relative prices for full-time undergraduate online education declined from 2006 to 2013. Although the pattern of results suggests some hope that online technology can "bend the cost curve" in higher education, the impact of online learning on education quality remains uncertain.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2015.
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