Abstract

Administrators are discovering that programs online don't necessarily bring riches and are taking a harder look at the real costs of providing this service. The Dallas Community Colleges moved to an enterprise delivery system in 2000 in an effort to create some of the efficiencies required to have a viable distance education program. This project was called a road to the world, as it offered the opportunity for learning to occur anywhere, at anytime, for anyone. It forced educators to rethink what is meant by terms such as classroom, school and student. This paper will provide a summary of the capital investment that the DCCC made in the eCampus project starting in the year 2000. Costs and user statistics will be outlined and we will showcase the benefits of the entire project in "real-hard" dollars. However, we will also discuss the real costs of implementing this system at a large institution and the entire return on investment over the last five years of operation.

Citation

Ramos, E. & Brown, R. (2005). Implementing an Enterprise-wide Distance Plan. In G. Richards (Ed.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2005--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 1045-1046). Vancouver, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 6, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/21323/.

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