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Table 8.

Participant willingness to pay for Web-based versus face-to-face course delivery modes.

Context	Context description for willingness to pay	Web-based		Face-to-face		P value^b	Correlation with overall course satisfaction: Spearman rho (P value)
Context	Context description for willingness to pay	n^a	mean (SD)	n^a	Mean (SD)	P value^b
1	If course not recognized for professional development points	30	96.33 (56.37)	24	129.17 (117.25)	.41	.46 (.001)
2	If course is 50% subsidized by an employer	35	165.57 (102.16)	31	192.26 (201.46)	.46	.43 (.001)
3	If course contributes toward professional development points	36	159.72 (103.61)	30	199 (260.83)	.39	.53 (.001)
4	If coursework is recognized as prior-learning credit (5%) toward postgraduate qualification	32	190.94 (131.40)	29	314.14 (423.01)	.61	.45 (.001)

^a Numbers vary due to some participants not completing all fields of the survey questions.

^b P values between delivery methods obtained using single-sample mean comparison t test.