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White Papers
The topics to be covered in the three costing policy white papers were initially discussed by the Advisory Committee over much of the first six months of the project. Once the topics were decided, the Advisory Committee assisted in identifying individuals to write the papers. All of the papers (listed below) are available from the hyperlink and as appendices in the TCM Casebook, Version 2.0.
A fourth paper "Assigning Expenditures to Activities and Courses," was written by project evaluator, Robert Wallhaus. The paper provides assistance in deciding how to estimate or measure expenditures that are feed into the TCM procedures. While it is a more technical document, the decisions outlined in this paper have significant policy implications in the final analysis.
White Paper 1: The Transformation of Instruction by Information Technology: Implications for State Policy by Dewayne Matthews & Dennis Jones - May 2002 
White Paper 2: Funding and Cost Containment of Educational Technology: Shifting Policy and Practices by John Opper & J.B. Mathews - September 2002
White Paper 3: Evaluating (and Improving) Benefits of Educational Uses of Technology by Stephen C. Ehrmann, Ph.D., The TLT Group - December 2002
White Paper 4: Assigning Expenditures to Activities and Courses by Robert Wallhaus —July 2004
TCM References (2001)
Funding to develop the Technology Costing Methodology was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. http://www.ed.gov/programs/fipsecomp/index.html 
