This paper presents an argument that "online learning need not be costly for learners and institutions." This runs contrary to a lot of what we read in the literature, though I would add that one of the reasons we developed our MOOC the way we did was that we didn't actually have a budget. Just some time and web servers. Anyhow, in this paper (13 page PDF) Sanjaya Mishra draws from four case studies involving the Commonwealth of Learning (CoL): just-in-time online learning, a self-learning platform for teachers and students, a MOOC, and Moodle courses. With the exception of the second Moodle course (which only had 13 completions), the cost per completion ran between $CAD 14 to 43. With numbers like these it basically doesn't make sense to charge for tuition.
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