Can Online Learning Bend the Higher Education Cost Curve?
研究在线学习技术是否降低了高等教育学费，发现在线教育集中在大型营利性机构和选择性较低的公立院校，在线学生比例高的学校学费更低，但教育质量影响仍不确定。
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. We find that colleges with a higher share of online students charge lower tuition prices. We present evidence of declining real and relative prices for full-time undergraduate online education 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.