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Assessing Your Fiscal Bandwidth: Current Practices for Measuring IT Costs in Higher Education
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May 14, 2013
Accurately and consistently measuring the cost of IT in higher education is an essential part of strategic IT management, yet according to IT leaders, cost data have proven elusive. What if a…
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Redesigning Schools to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teachers: A Financial Planning Summary
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May 1, 2012
This brief summarizes the ways that schools and their teachers can simultaneously reach more students with excellent teaching, expand teachers’ career opportunities, and sustainably fun…
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Innovating Toward Sustainability: How Computer Labs Can Enable New Staffing Structures, and New Savings
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December 1, 2012
Even as new educational technologies have emerged, staffing innovations have seemed all but impossible in American schools. Charter and district schools alike long ago surrendered to the notion t…
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Optimizing Computing Infrastructure: Weighing Factors and Identifying Solutions
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March 1, 2013
So, you've identified the problem and maybe even a set of possible solutions for your IT project. How do you decide which solution will best meet the needs of your campus or IT organization?…
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Measuring User Satisfaction: Why It’s Important and How to Do It - Infographic
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August 16, 2012
As institutions look to reduce or contain costs, CIOs, institutional leaders, and service managers are challenged to optimize service delivery based on costs, features, and quality. Evaluating se…
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The Costs of Online Learning
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January 1, 2012
It’s impossible to put a single price tag on “online learning” because, like cars, colleges, and cottages, it comes in widely varying levels of quality and efficiency. Instead, this paper…
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Encouraging Social Innovation through Capital: Using Technology to Address Barriers
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November 1, 2011
This report, co-authored by Bryan Hassel for Bellwether Education Partners, examines how technology can optimize the flow of investment capital to drive innovation in public education. As descr…
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Moving from Inputs to Outputs to Outcomes: The Future of Education Policy
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June 1, 2012
The fast-growing field of online learning, in which over 4 million K–12 students and over 75 percent of school districts nationwide are utilizing some form of online learning, has the potenti…
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Using BI to Identify Revenue and Resource Reallocation
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March 18, 2013
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A session at the Midwest Regional Conference
Like most institutions of higher education, Miami University is facing increasing financial pressures and demands. Miami University has decided to develop a new budget model that will result in the…
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Measuring User Satisfaction: Why It’s Important and How to Do It
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August 2, 2012
Key Findings Institutional leaders, CIOs, and service managers are focused on service delivery. Understanding the user perspective is instrumental in making good decisions about service sou…























