Time demands in online instructionFootnote1

This paper is based on a study sponsored by the Mellon Foundation’s Cost Effective Use of Technology in Teaching program. Portions of the final report to the Mellon Foundation can be found at http://idde.syr.edu/mellon. The author of this paper was the principal investigator in the Mellon study. The final report was co‐authored with Philip L. Doughty and Barbara A. Yonai, both of whom are at Syracuse University.

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