Program in Course Redesign:
Project Descriptions Sorted by Grant Rounds

The Program in Course Redesign has collaborated with 30 institutions to demonstrate how colleges and universities can redesign their instructional approaches using technology to achieve cost savings as well as quality enhancements. Redesign projects focus on large-enrollment, introductory courses, which have the potential of impacting significant student numbers and generating substantial savings.

The following links include contact information, one-page project abstracts, full academic plans, full cost savings plans, ongoing progress reports and final outcome reports for each of the 30 institutions.

Round I Project Descriptions:

From 7/1/99 to 6/30/01, the following ten institutions redesigned large-enrollment, introductory courses using technology to achieve cost savings as well as quality enhancements. These redesign projects impact significant student numbers and generate substantial cost savings.

Each of the following links includes contact information, a one-page project abstract, a full academic plan, a full cost savings plan, an interim progress report and a final outcome report.

• Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI): Sociology
• Penn State University: Elementary Statistics
• Rio Salado College: Mathematics
• University at Buffalo (UB): Computer Literacy
• University of Central Florida (UCF): American Government
• University of Colorado-Boulder (UC): Astronomy
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC): Statistics
• University of Southern Maine (USM): Psychology
• University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW): Chemistry
• Virginia Tech: Linear Algebra

Round II Project Descriptions:

From 7/1/00 to 6/30/02, the following ten institutions redesigned large-enrollment, introductory courses using technology to achieve cost savings as well as quality enhancements. These redesign projects impact significant student numbers and generate substantial cost savings.

Each of the following links includes contact information, a one-page project abstract, a full academic plan, a full cost savings plan, an interim progress report and a final outcome report.

• Cal Poly Pomona: General Psychology
• Carnegie Mellon University (CMU): Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
• Fairfield University: General Biology
• Riverside Community College (RCC): Elementary Algebra
• The University of Alabama (UA): Intermediate Algebra
• University of Dayton (UD): Introductory Psychology
• The University of Idaho: Precalculus Mathematics
• University of Iowa: General Chemistry
• University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass): Introductory Biology
• The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK): Intermediate Spanish Transition

Round III Project Descriptions:

From 7/1/01 to 6/30/03, the following ten institutions redesigned large-enrollment, introductory courses using technology to achieve cost savings as well as quality enhancements. These redesign projects impact significant student numbers and generate substantial cost savings.

Each of the following links includes contact information, a one-page project abstract, a full academic plan, a full cost savings plan, an interim progress report and a final outcome report.

• Brigham Young University (BYU): English Composition
• Drexel University: Computer Programming
• Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU): Fine Arts
• Iowa State University: Discrete Mathematics
• Northern Arizona University (NAU): College Algebra
• The Ohio State University: Statistics
• Portland State University (PSU): Introductory Spanish
• Tallahassee Community College (TCC): College Composition
• The University of New Mexico (UNM): General Psychology
• The University of Southern Mississippi (USM): World Literature

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