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Buy or Lease Equipment (Development and Production)
There is a tremendous difference in how you approach a decision on
equipment -- based only in part on available resources, volume of content,
number of courses, and expertise. There is no one right answer for
everyone. Consider at least the following:
- dollars available at startup
- how quickly will you start after acquiring
equipment
- how many courses do you plan to put on the web
- how many people to
you have for how long to do this project
- what is your personal or
available expertise
- what would you do with the equipment if management
decides to stop offering courses on line
- how easy is the equipment
upgraded and repaired
- what maintenance money is available
- what LMS are you considering
- what do your students and teachers
use for equipment
- what are your peers and support groups using
- what do the trade journals
report about the trends
Why be concerned: There are a ton of other issues that are related
to this problem, including:
- maintenance
- startup costs (buy servers, pay for hosting)
- support (administrative,
for users, of content, internet, network, political, etc)
- migration
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