ROI

EDUCAUSE Library Items for ROI

Building Organizational Capacity for Analytics

February 25, 2013

Optimizing student success is the “killer app” for analytics in higher education . Intelligent investments in optimizing student success garner wide support and have a strong, justifia…

Five Guidelines for Instituting IT Value Measurement

November 13, 2012

Factors including budget cutbacks, rigorous regulatory requirements, rising demands for IT services, and IT’s contribution to transformative change fuel the need for IT leaders to communicate I…

Bringing Business Analytics to the College Campus:Using Fiscal Metrics to Steer Innovation in Postsecondary Educations

September 19, 2011

This Center for American Progress and Delta Project report provides an overview of how business analytics could be used to improve the return on investment in higher education instruction. …

Collaborative Development of Key Performance Indicators

September 27, 2011

Key Takeaways Budget cuts and increasing enrollments , coupled with legislative mandates that base funding allocations on student outcomes rather than headcount, are forcing the …

Open Courseware Initiatives and the Challenge of Sustainability

July 21, 2011

Taylor Walsh writes on behalf of Ithaka S+R. She is the author of Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Leading Universities Are Opening Up Access to Their Courses (Princeton, N.J.: Princ…

Shared Leadership Transforms Higher Education IT

June 24, 2011

Key Takeaways Moving IT from simple technology management to strategic partner and catalyst for transforming higher education requires shared leadership that emphasizes seam…

NSF-Sponsored Workshop Report: Sustainable Funding and Business Models for Academic Cyberinfrastructure Facilities

November 18, 2010

This report summarizes the observations and recommendations from the National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop of the same title. Workshop papers submitted discuss the challenges faced in …

Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report

September 13, 2010

The ACRL publication Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report is a review of the quantitative and qualitative literature, methodologies and best practices curre…

Federated Identity: A Recipe for Higher Education

June 24, 2010

Key Takeaways Federated identity is a transformative technology that will turn higher education institutions into both identity consumers and identity providers. The ROI for federated i…

Dancing with History: A Cautionary Tale

February 4, 2010

© 2010 Brenda Gourley. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 1 (January/February 2010): 30-41 Brenda Gourley ( brendagourley1@gmail.com ) was Vice Chancellor and CEO of The Open Universit…