Average class size is one of the primary factors driving cost per Student Credit Hour (SCH). But average class size is a bit of an over-simplification: in my home office, my dog and I together have an average of three legs, but that doesn’t really represent either of us very well.
Topics: Curricular Efficiency, Academic Program Economics, class size
The importance of envisioning future course and program portfolios will be familiar to readers of my recent blogs. Provosts, deans, and others responsible for academic resourcing invest time and money to get better data on their portfolios: e.g., by using Gray Associates’ Program Economics Platform (PEP). These data help them identify strategies for improvement, which is especially important given the current Covid-19 disruptions. We are pleased to introduce PEP+, our new predictive model for envisioning the consequences of changing a school’s lineup of courses and programs, just in time to help mitigate these disruptions.
Topics: Higher Education, Curricular Efficiency, Predictive Analytics, Academic Program Economics