The Price of Flexibility? Evaluating the True Cost of Distance Education

Center for Education Policy Research | August 2025

Soumya Mishra & Jon Fullerton

Using data provided by the Los Angeles Community College District and interviews with teaching faculty, this paper compares the amount of time faculty spent in course delivery activities as well as the total costs of delivering courses across modalities.

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