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Peer reviewedBell, Stephen – Special Libraries, 1990
Discusses the use of remote communications software (RCS) with microcomputers as an inexpensive way to deliver information technologies such as CD-ROM databases to users at remote locations. Typical library applications at the University of Pennsylvania are described, potential disadvantages are presented, and an appendix lists vendors of RCS.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Information Technology
Peer reviewedOffir, Baruch; Katz, Yaacov J. – Education and Computing, 1990
Discussion of industrial-educational cooperation focuses on the Learning Curve model, which can be used to evaluate the cost effectiveness of learning programs. Cost effectiveness for homogeneous and heterogeneous groups is discussed, and the use of computers to gather information about learning achievement is considered. (Six references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Heterogeneous Grouping
Peer reviewedLewis, Darrell R. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1990
This article identifies a conceptual framework wherein teacher education costs and benefits can be comprehensively described, valued, and linked for analytic purposes; presents benchmark data from a fifth-year licensure program; and examines several assumptions for examining this question from the perspectives of students and society. (TJH)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Research, Educational Planning, Estimation (Mathematics)
Peer reviewedLewis, Darrell R.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1991
This study found that formal benefit-cost and effectiveness-cost analyses can help determine whether outcomes of particular special education services are being offered most efficiently. The study presents a conceptual framework for describing costs and benefits, presents data for two schools serving youth with severe mental retardation, and…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHughes, David R. – Internet Research, 1993
Describes a cost-effective model for public elementary and secondary school educational networking that is based on linking local computer bulletin boards at the school level with the Internet. Highlights include various communications protocols; graphics; teacher training and administrative support; library resources; public readiness; and cost…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Graphics, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates
Schrof, Joannie M. – U.S. News & World Report, 1993
Reviews the following advantages of attending community colleges: lower costs, earlier graduation, specialized vocational education, course transferability, and corporate job connections. Concludes that, although community college education has disadvantages (i.e., few advanced courses and relatively low status of associate degrees), it offers…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Choice, College Role, Community Colleges
Dunning, Jeremy – TECHNOS, 1998
Discusses the use of virtual reality in educational software. Topics include CAVE (Computer-Assisted Virtual Environments); cost-effective virtual environment tools including QTVR (Quick Time Virtual Reality); interactive exercises; educational criteria for technology-based educational tools; and examples of screen displays. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness, Courseware
Chapman, John M.; Thiel, Anna – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
Since its inception in 1994, the Michigan Educators' Exchange Opportunities Program has allowed nearly 300 K-12 educators to spend approximately 2 1/2 weeks in one of over a dozen countries. Michigan teachers stay in the homes of foreign colleagues and vice versa. This reciprocity benefits Michigan teachers and students. (MLH)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Cultural Exchange, Educational Benefits, Elementary Secondary Education
van der Werf, Martin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
Increasingly, colleges and universities are privatizing housing, attracted to the limited financial outlay and involvement in management. Critics fear that institutions' financial positions will be compromised if the private developers have problems, and that institutions will lose control of financial aspects and quality of residence-hall life,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Ancillary School Services, College Administration, College Housing
Pollock, Kent – Converge, 1999
Describes the British Open University which serves more than 200,000 students a year and offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in a variety of fields. Discusses the team approach to instructional design, delivery and evaluation; educational quality; emphasis on independent learning; cost effectiveness; and partnerships with United…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cost Effectiveness, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
Capps, William R.; Maxwell, Mary Ellen – American School Board Journal, 1999
The trend toward bigness and consolidation continues unabated, driven by political, economic, social, and demographic considerations, rather than extensive research attesting to small schools' educational benefits. School size influences social interaction and degree of student alienation. We need to reclaim the small school's sense of community,…
Descriptors: Alienation, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors, Efficiency
Atkins, Helen; Lyons, Catherine; Ratner, Howard; Risher, Carol; Shillum, Chris; Sidman, David; Stevens, Andrew; Van de Sompel, Herbert; Lagoze, Carl; Van de Sompel, Herbert; Krichel, Thomas; Nelson, Michael L.; Hochstenbach, Patrick; Lyapunov, Victor M.; Maly, Kurt; Zubair, Mohammad; Kholief, Mohamed; Liu, Xiaoming; O'Connell, Heath; Kingma, Bruce R.; Pritcher, Lynn – D-Lib Magazine, 2000
Includes five articles that discuss publishers' metadata hyperlinks with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) on the Internet; the Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives initiative (Oai) that promotes author self-archiving; the Universal Preprint Service; costs of digital, microfiche, and print access; and an online database of old print…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Authors, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedDownes, Thomas A. – Economics of Education Review, 2000
Assesses effects of five large city school districts' fiscal dependence on educational spending in New York State. Results suggest that spending levels may be systematically lower in fiscally dependent districts. Recommends re-aligning resource allocation and school governance responsibilities and using matching grants to reduce spending…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Efficiency
Hammond, Jane – School Administrator, 2000
Since a large, underfunded urban Colorado district initiated ISO 9000 reforms, administrators and staff have reviewed 14 central-office departments' processes to improve efficiency and enhance student outcomes. Jefferson County has saved $900,000 annually on purchasing processes, developed a quality curriculum-development process, and improved…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Improvement, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
Mahoney, Richard J. – Trusteeship, 1998
Universities can benefit from the experiences of corporations that have "reinvented" themselves in the past decade. Corporations did this by identifying their basic missions, disposing of or deemphasizing activities not essential to those missions, paring down institutional bureaucracies, and forming alliances with other corporations to share…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Business Administration, Change Strategies
