Identifying Costs of Instructional Technology in Higher Education

The current advocacy for rapidly increasing theuse of instructional technologies has not been accompanied bysufficient research on the costs of these modes of instruction. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the need for morecomprehensive research on instructional technology costs and toprovide a framework for examining these costs. First, to providecontext, some current assumptions about the growing use ofinstructional technology are discussed. Then various categoriesof costs are described.