17 The Costs of Online Learning January 10, 2012 By Tamara Butler Battaglino, Matt Haldeman, and Eleanor Laurans Filed under: Digital Learning The latest installment of the Fordham Institute’s Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning  series investigates one of the more controversial aspects of digital learning: How much does it cost? In this paper, the Parthenon Group uses interviews with more than fifty vendors and online-schooling experts to estimate today's average per-pup