Using ROI for Strategic Planning of Online Education: A Process for Institutional Transformation

Using ROI for Strategic Planning of Online Education: A Process for Institutional Transformation
ISBN-10
1642673250
ISBN-13
9781642673258
Category
Investments
Language
English
Published
2022
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Deborah M. Seymour, Kathleen S. Ives

Description

Published in association with While higher education has rarely employed ROI methodology--focusing more on balancing its revenue streams, such as federal, state, and local appropriations, tuition, and endowments with its costs--the rapid growth of online education and the history of how it has evolved, with its potential for institutional transformation and as a major source of revenue, as well as its need for substantial and long-term investment, makes the use of ROI an imperative. This book both demonstrates how ROI is a critical tool for strategic planning and outlines the process for determining ROI. The book's expert contributors lay the foundation for developing new practices to meet the compelling challenges of online education and identify new models that offer the potential for transforming the educational system, meeting new workforce demands, and ultimately improving the economy. The opening chapters of the book explore the dimensions of ROI as a strategic planning process, offering guiding principles as well as methods of measurement and progress tracking, and demonstrate the impact of ROI across the institution. The book identifies the role of previously overlooked constituents--such as online professionals as critical partners for developing institutional strategy and institutional stakeholders for vital input on inclusivity, diversity, and equity--and their increasingly important role in impacting the ROI of online programs. Subsequent chapters offer a range of approaches to ROI reflecting the strategic priorities and types of return institutions seek from their investment in online programming, whether they be increased profits or surpluses via reduced expenses or increased operating efficiencies or the development of increased brand awareness for their programs. They also address the growing competitive environment of recent commercial entrants and online program managers (OPMs). The contributors offer best practices for setting goals and identifying benchmarks for increasing and measuring payback, including the creation of cross-functional ROI teams from across an institution; and further address the advantages and disadvantages of universities partnering with external providers, or even other colleges and universities, to provide online programs with them and for them. This book offers presidents and senior administrators, faculty engaged in shared governance, online learning administrators, and stakeholders representing student, community and employer interests with a rigorous process for developing an online strategy.

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