Comprehensive Reading List:

“The Transformation of Higher Education: The Inevitable Union of Alchemy and Technology” (Harpur) Higher Education Policy (2006)

“The Transformation of Higher Education through Information Technology: Implications for State Higher Education Finance Policy” (Matthews) (1998)

“Improving Learning and Reducing Costs: New Models for Online Learning” (Twigg) Educase (2003)

“Application Guidelines for the Mississippi Course Redesign Initiative” Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning – Office of Academic and Student Affairs (2007)

“Improving Learning and Reducing Costs: Redesigning Large-Enrollment Courses” (Twigg) (1999)

“Course Corrections: Experts Offer Solutions to the College Cost Crisis” A Publication from the Lumina Foundation for Education.  It includes the following articles:

“Outsourcing of non-mission-critical functions: A solution to the rising cost of college attendance” (Bushman and Dean)

“Seven steps: Ways to reduce instructional costs and improve undergraduate and graduate education” (Coplin)

“Improving Quality and reducing costs: The case for redesign” (Twigg)

“Shared Solutions: The Kansas Perspective” (Oleen, Hollon, Lindeman)

“Avoiding a Collision Course: A State Policy Agenda for Increasing High School Students’ College Readiness” (Conklin)

“A Question of Effectiveness: Michigan’s Solutions to the College Cost Issue” (Kuehnlein and Joynton)

“Approaching the Dilemma from Both Sides: PROMISE Credits for Young Students and Creating an Environment Conducive to Controlling Costs” (Baum)

“Tipping Point: Controlling College Textbook Prices” (Fairchild)

“Toward a New Way of Thinking: Quality, Productivity, and College Costs” (Matthews)

“A Chicken-Egg Dilemma” (Twigg) Educase (1995)

“Increasing Success for Underserved Students: Redesigning Introductory Courses” (Twigg) The NationalCenter for Academic Transformation (2005)

“Policy Alert: Course Redesign Improves Learning and Reduces Costs” (Twigg) The NationalCenter for Public Policy and Higher Education (2005)

“A Changing Picture: Changing College Courses Can Also Change the Course of Lives” The Lumina Foundation

NASH Data Metrics October 2007

National Center for Academic Transformation The NationalCenter for Public Policy and Higher Education Power Point Presentations
“Can Education be ‘Productive’?” The NationalCenter for Public Policy and Higher Education
“The NCAT Course Redsign Program: Improving Student Learning While Reducing Instructional Costs” The NationalCenter for Academic Transformation


“Course Readiness Criteria: Identifying Targets of Opportunity for Large-Scale Redesign” (Twigg) Educase (2000)