Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, July 11, 2002

http://www.wiche.edu/telecom/projects/tcm/index.htm

Technology Costing Methodology Project

AT a 1997 meeting, several members of the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunication's (WCET) Steering Committee were visibly squirming. They were under pressure back home to provide data on the costs of using these new-fangled educational technologies. Legislators in one state wanted data on the effectiveness of their investment in a statewide telecommunications network. Faculty in another wondered about the costs of implementing educational technologies. Another state's governor imposed performance audits on all state entities, which included cost analyses. Since higher education is notorious for its inability to cost any non-sporting activity that happens on campus, it is easy to understand their discomfort....


 



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