Online, Cheap -- and Elite - Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed

Five years ago the Georgia Institute of Technology began a bold experiment -- to take a high-profile graduate program, put it online and offer it to students at a fraction of the cost of the in-person degree. Working with the massive open online course provider Udacity, and armed with a $2 million corporate investment from AT&T, Georgia Tech launched its online master of science in computer science in spring 2014. The tuition was $6,630 -- about a sixth of the cost of an on-campus degree. An analysis of Georgia Tech’s pioneering online master’s in computer science -- written by two researchers at Harvard and one from Georgia Tech and published in Education Next, a journal focused on school reform -- suggests that the gamble paid off. https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/03/20/analysis-shows-georgia-tech%E2%80%99s-online-masters-computer-science