Great stuff—super impressed on how much you achieved on this budget! Those numbers seem incredibly impressive, and definitely seems to indicate a lot of value can be had by this type of program. Running it in Sydney/Melbourne also means you have less diminishing returns—normally I’d expect this to be the best program you could run since you’re picking from the most pent-up demand for this course, but I can’t imagine people likely to come from abroad for a part-time 14-week course.
“Cost Efficiency: $899 AUD per participant (note: organizers were either paid from other grants or volunteers. The cost per participant would otherwise be much higher)”
While TARA’s mixed model (online TA + in-person cohort) still IMO represents a 5-15x cost savings on in-person fellowships, I wanted to be transparent from the beginning about why this iteration might be > 20x cheaper.
Great stuff—super impressed on how much you achieved on this budget! Those numbers seem incredibly impressive, and definitely seems to indicate a lot of value can be had by this type of program. Running it in Sydney/Melbourne also means you have less diminishing returns—normally I’d expect this to be the best program you could run since you’re picking from the most pent-up demand for this course, but I can’t imagine people likely to come from abroad for a part-time 14-week course.
Hi Jay—thanks for your comment.
I updated the dot point at the top to read:
“Cost Efficiency: $899 AUD per participant (note: organizers were either paid from other grants or volunteers. The cost per participant would otherwise be much higher)”
While TARA’s mixed model (online TA + in-person cohort) still IMO represents a 5-15x cost savings on in-person fellowships, I wanted to be transparent from the beginning about why this iteration might be > 20x cheaper.
Makes sense. Would be curious about estimated costs if this wasn’t the case!