“Since April 1999, the Center for Academic Transformation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has conducted a Program in Course Redesign with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts. The purpose of this institutional grant program is to encourage colleges and universities to redesign their instructional approaches using technology to achieve quality enhancements as well as cost savings. Redesign projects focus on large-enrollment, introductory courses, which have the potential of impacting significant student numbers and generating substantial cost savings. The Center has awarded $6 million in grants to 30 projects in three rounds of ten projects each.
The third round of redesign projects began in July 2001 and concluded in July 2003. (Detailed descriptions of the ten redesigns and the outcomes each achieved can be found at http://www.center.rpi.edu/PewGrant/Rd3award.html.) The ten institutions and the courses they redesigned are:
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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Entire article by Carol Twigg can be found at http://www.center.rpi.edu/PewGrant/Rd3Less.html