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The Technology Costing Methodology
(TCM) Project is funded by the U.S. Department
of Education's Fund for Improvement of Post Secondary Education
(FIPSE) and is a joint endeavor between the Western Cooperative
for Educational Telecommunications and the National Center
for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS).
The Technology Costing Methodology (TCM) project began
in September of 1998. TCM's goal is to develop and pilot
test an authoritative costing methodology (and related procedures)
for calculating costs:
- Within an institution to determine if proposed instructional
approaches that make heavy use of technology actually
do serve to contain costs; and
- Across institutions, allowing data to be compared legitimately
for different instructional or technological approaches,
which will benefit legislatures, state-governing boards,
state coordinating boards, and federal agencies.
The Technology Costing Methodology Project will have two
published works at the completion of this project-the TCM
Handbook and the TCM Casebook.
The TCM Handbook outlines the policies and methodology
utilized to calculate technology costs. The initial feedback
indicates that the TCM Handbook will be a useful tool for
institutions and system offices to analyze instructional
technology costs for decision-making purposes.
A PDF file is available for download
1.9 MB [large file].
The TCM Casebook is a compilation of implementation
case studies from a selection of the TCM pilot projects.
The TCM Casebook supplements the TCM Handbook. The TCM Casebook
is the only public document of the pilot site results. We
anticipate that the TCM Casebook will assist those new to
the methodology understand how it can be implemented.
A PDF file is available for download
497 KB.
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In addition to the TCM Handbook and Casebook,
the TCM Project received additional funding from FIPSE
and from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation to create a
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet that would capture the TCM
Handbook procedures in an easy to use format. The result
is The TCM Tabulator. |
Updated
04/03/2002
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