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Return on Investment Toolkit
EDUCAUSE; rpk Group
This toolkit provides videos, webinars, articles, infographics, tools, and case studies focused on applying anROI lens to innovation and investments to support student success.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Toolkit
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning

New York State Open Educational Resources Funds: CUNY Year Two Report
CUNY Report
As of Fall 2019, the growth of CUNY's OER programs, courses, and enrollments has skyrocketed as illustrated by the following numbers: 23,661 sections across CUNY have converted from expensive proprietary materials to open educational resources. IMPACT: 469,000 students have enrolled in courses with zero textbook cost. Students saved an estimated .9 million from Fall 2017 - Fall 2019. BENEFITS ANALYSIS: .86 in savings for every of NYS Funding.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning

The Science Education Initiative model, outcomes, and lessons learned
The Science Education Initiative model, outcomes, and lessons learned Primarily an analysis of the SEI model and impacts in the physics department, there is an analysis of faculty workload and time issues in ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Professional Development, Institutional Systems:Evaluating Teaching, Institutional Systems

Advancing the Power of Economic Evidence to Inform Investments in Children, Youth, and Families
Advancing the Power of Economic Evidence to Inform Investments in Children, Youth, and Families NAP Report. While not directly related to pedagogical/institutional change related to teaching and learning, the ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Professional Development

The National Center for Academic Transformation
The National Center for Academic Transformation NCAT is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to the effective use of information technology to improve student learning outcomes and reduce the cost of ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Institutional Systems:Technological Infrastructure, Institutional Systems

Science 2.0 blog
Science 2.0 blog Shorter summaries of a think piece by Carl Wieman about what the optimized university would look like, which addresses issues of efficiency. Suggested Citation Wieman, C. (2008, July 28). ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Blog Post
Program Components: Professional Development, Institutional Systems

Calculating cost-return for investments in student success
Calculating cost-return for investments in student success This project calculated the cost return on first year programs to enhance student success. It claims all the tuition/fee revenue for the increase in ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Institutional Systems

The optimized university
The optimized university This is a think piece by Carl Wieman about what the optimized university would look like, which addresses issues of efficiency. Suggested Citation Wieman, C. (2007). A new model for ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Opinion Piece
Program Components: Professional Development, Institutional Systems

Transforming Institutions
Transforming Institutions This book brings together chapters from scholars in the 2011 and 2014 Transforming Institutions conferences. It provides an overview of the context and challenges in STEM higher ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders, Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Course Evaluation, Professional Development

Benefit-Cost analysis
Benefit-Cost analysis Benefit - Cost analysis is commonly used in infrastructure projects, especially transportation, as one criterion for project selection. Given the financial challenges facing higher education, ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Institutional Systems