Attending face to face class has become a tradition, from our grand grandparents, our parents, and to our generation. However, Covid-19 came into the world and spread. The dilemma brought a lot of negative effect to individuals also, to the government. Business firms, Schools and Establishment’s, had been closed for a month to see what strategy is effective to this pandemic. Education is very important to students and economy that’s why the government implemented the online learning platform. This sprouts the question, how much online learning platform cost? And which costs less online learning or face to face learning platform.
People says that online class is cheaper than the traditional class. However, the WICHE cooperative for educational techniques (WCET) conducted a survey about what cost more online learning platform class or on campus program. The survey of administration said that online courses are more expensive. Whereas, producing an online course means licensing software, engaging instruction designs, training faculty members and among other added cost according to (Rusell Poulin and Terri Taylor Straut) the author of the study. The cost of data usage also depends on the application used in online class.
In Estimating the data usage of a video calling platform they use bandwidth by looking at the bandwidth numbers. They just add the inbound and outbound bandwidth and multiply by how long the conference call will continue to get an estimate of data usage. This will only give you estimates, actual consumption will vary with other factors. In general, the amount of data you need to study online is between 250MB to 300MB per hour of data but not accurate answers at all (DegreeSetup).
On the other hand, (Online schools center, A red ventures) said online class typically are less expensive than a college or university campus that requires your presence. In addition, they said that by attending an online class, you can save money by eliminating transportation expenses, students parking fees, housing costs, and by avoiding extra food and ward robe expenditures.
The cost of online learning and on campus program depends on the school, you are attending. Specifically, the cost of online class, it has no fixed value on how much you spend on online learning because it depends on how many hours you’re attending class per day, the cost of data usage depends on the duration of the class, in a similar way the cost of data usage depends on the application used in online learning. For instance, Zoom spends between 450MB-1.2Gb per hour (Mulawarman Universitas). On the other hand, Google meet use lesser mobile data consumption it was roughly 500MB per hour (Ritiksingh). However, Microsoft Teams is quite conservative on bandwidth utilization and can deliver HD video quality. It roughly uses about 225MB data per hour for group video calling. In the case of HD group video calling with 540p Videos on a 1080p Screen themes will consume about 450MB of data per hour. In addition, the on-campus program has no fixed cost on how much you spend per day because you can’t tell the exact cost you can spend per day.
Therefore, we can tell that online class cost almost the same as on-campus learning program.
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