A good economic situation can lead to insufficient use of resources, while declining funding can force focus on core aspects¶

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q2 i? The authors' economic-pillar observation was that abundant funding can lead to insufficient resource use, whereas declining funding can force designers to focus on core aspects and improve. → Jarkko Suhonen · Erkki Sutinen 2022

Evidence¶

Jarkko Suhonen · Erkki Sutinen 2022¶

Jarkko Suhonen · Erkki Sutinen. (2022). Critical events and pivotal factors as tools for analyzing the sustainability of online study programs. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-022-10133-9

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Authors' lessons-learned reflection from the four-pillar analysis of the IMPDET program's critical events. They add that declining funding can force designers to focus on core aspects of the studies, which can lead to improvement. No effect sizes are reported.

"From an economic perspective, the most interesting observation was that a good economic situation can lead to the insufficient use of resources."

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