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Option A

Option A is suited best for institutions that want to better understand how live distance learning works before they move on to one of the forms of accreditation and student instruction. Multi-campus schools can especially realize a reduction in institutional expenses. Some of the more obvious benefits of the Q-room are listed below.

  • Administrative travel for meetings and training can be drastically reduced.

  • The classroom can benefit by injecting more live guest speakers and potential employers.

  • A live conferencing area for graduates within the placement department can improve services and stats.

  • Improved training opportunities for all departments can be realized by bringing training in, instead of going out to get it.

  • Teleworking can become an integral part of every department

 

Actions necessary to implement a school wide web-conferencing and a content mangement system              

No Student Distance Learning

 In-House costs

 Time Required

 Quopax Fees

 Time required
Hire a distance learning consultant to ascertain the state of the web-conferencing sector and do a cost analysis to see if a company-wide implementation of web-conferencing can improve each departments within the institution
$3000-$6000
30-60 days
Inclusive
 0 days
Identify and contract for a content management system (CMS) and a web-conferencing company. Then hire one of the companies to integrate the two systems (blend the two together)
$5000
 30 days
 Inclusive
 0 days
Purchase the appropriate equipment (mics and webcams) for each user/department
 $75 per desktop
 3 days
$75 per desktop
3 days
Contract with a company(s) to conduct training of both the live web-tools and the asynchronous CMS system
 $175-$500 per person for 20 people or $3500-$10,000
 30 days
 $125-$400 per person or $2500-$8,000
15 days
Contract with a company(s) to host both the live web-tools and the CMS
Approx $200 a month for 20 users $2400 per year
15-30 days
 $7.00 per person a month for 20 people $1680 per year
 3 days
Contract with a career college consulting firm to be advised on how best to use the Q-room to its greatest potential, espeically around the periphery of the classroom, without formally teaching distance learning
 Consultant's fees
N/A
inclusive
0 days
Quopax Service Fee
 --  --
 $3000
 --
         

Totals 

$13,900-$23,400

75--90 days

$7200-$13,000

18-21 days

 

Option A allows an institution to ease into distance learning instead of diving in head first. Granted option A does not offer schools direct income as do options B and C through student's tuition but by implementing the Q-room environment into the corporate structure it does provide a school with a no risk environment to determine if they can be successful before they obligate themselves to the accrediting processes. 

Additionally, for institutions that are looking toward selling in the not so distant future having a staff that is comfortable with the tools of a synchronous distance learning environment could be a very valuable assest to a potential purchaser. Even better would be if the institution has some form of accredited distance learning.