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Friday, July 02, 2004
Online Course Caps: A Survey - Boris Vilic, Syllabus
As online courses continue to permeate the curricula of many higher education institutions, administrators often raise the issue of a maximum number of students in a course—the “course cap”—as a factor that directly contributes to profitability and sustainability of online programs. Increasing traditionally low online course caps, one could argue, can help offset the costs associated with providing technical infrastructure and faculty and student support. But faculty fear that high course caps could have an adverse effect on their workloads and consequently on student learning outcomes.... The survey found that the average course cap is 30 students at the undergraduate level and 28 at the graduate level (with the range between 10 and 150 students at both levels).
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