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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
Peer reviewedSvenningsen, Karen – Bottom Line, 1998
Discusses the economic value of information and cost and benefit concepts. A subjective evaluation model for comparing the desirable and undesirable potential of library acquisition of an electronic information resource is then introduced. The model considers objectives, impact, costs, benefits, and alternatives, and lists evaluation criteria for…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Electronic Publishing, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedRangazas, Peter – Education Economics, 1997
Examines whether private school vouchers would increase educational quality in public and private schools. Even in models featuring X-inefficient (budget-maximizing) administrators, vouchers' effects on quality are ambiguous. Vouchers may reduce the enrollment response to changes in public-school quality by placing different households on the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Competition, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Economics
Usalis, Marian D. – School Library Journal, 1998
Presents lessons learned in four years of renovating school libraries in Cleveland, Ohio: build a team, fund raising, design tips (layout, furniture, color, windows, floors, theme), bargain hunting, staff recruiting, and timelines. With a small amount of money, volunteers, imagination, and hard work any library media center can be transformed into…
Descriptors: Color, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Facility Guidelines
Peer reviewedKishore, S. – Indian Journal of Open Learning, 1997
The Institute of Correspondence Education (ICE) of the University of Madras (India) is highly cost-effective when compared to the conventional system. The fact that a major portion of the cost is recoverable in student fees makes the ICE system more economical; however, the requisite level of resources has not been allocated for student-support…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Correspondence Study, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance
Schuman, Patricia Glass – Library Journal, 1998
Argues that recent decisions to outsource library collection development are not isolated incidents but attempts to privatize whole core services and even management of libraries. Examines three misconceptions about the private sector: that it can do it better and cheaper, that accountability to the marketplace is more effective than government,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Library Administration, Library Collection Development
Peer reviewedMillson-Martula, Christopher; Pathak, Susanna Bartmann; Pfeiffer, Carol – Library Philosophy and Practice, 2000
Offers a descriptive account and critical analysis of three cooperative collection development projects undertaken by the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA), a consortium of Virginia academic libraries. Reviews cooperative collection development processes and explains objectives that included cost effectiveness, improved access to information…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Consortia, Cost Effectiveness
Peer reviewedWeed, Lawrence L. – Journal of Dental Education, 1996
New information technology allows dental educators and practitioners to have better access to the medical literature and to details about a given patient and to process much larger amounts of information. These improvements translate into consistency of care, more and better medical knowledge, cost-effectiveness, and greater clarity of details…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cost Effectiveness, Dental Schools, Feedback
Peer reviewedFarlow, Leslie – Educational Leadership, 1996
As the profiles of four mentally handicapped teenagers show, students with severe disabilities can benefit from being included in subject-area classes. To facilitate inclusion, teachers can allow peers to facilitate learning, prime students to be successful participants, give students valued roles, utilize existing expertise, and adapt the…
Descriptors: Autism, Case Studies, Cooperative Learning, Cost Effectiveness
Peer reviewedDewey, Barbara I. – Library Trends, 1994
Discusses personnel cost projections as a component of overall academic library planning. Topics addressed include strategic planning; the impact of the external environment; accountability; visions and values; technology and personnel costs; new program initiatives; client-centered philosophies; cost studies; and the personnel program cost…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Accountability, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness
