Open AccessTHE IMPACT OF INCREASING ENROLLMENT ON FACULTY WORKLOAD AND STUDENT SATISFACTION OVER TIME
Author(s) -
David DiBiase
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
online learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2472-5749
pISSN - 2472-5730
DOI - 10.24059/olj.v8i2.1827
Subject(s) - workload , period (music) , asynchronous communication , scale (ratio) , psychology , medical education , computer science , medicine , economics , geography , management , telecommunications , cartography , physics , acoustics
Detailed daily records of instructor effort in an established asynchronous online course over a three and one-half year period are analyzed. Student satisfaction data acquired from course evaluation surveys over the same period are also examined. In response to a three-fold increase in enrollment over the period, instructors realized a twelve percent gain in efficiency. Contrary to expectations, a modest economy of scale was achieved with no discernible decrease in student satisfaction.