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The CoSN Value of Investment (VOI) Leadership Initiative, is designed to support the effective use of technology in K-12 education. The focus of this initiative is to provide a methodology and tools for K-12 school leaders, allowing them to better measure and articulate the costs and benefits of proposed technology projects. To learn more about the VOI concept, see About VOI. There is little information on determining the value of investment for K-12. View or subscribe to What's New for notifications of information concerning CoSN updates or other information concerning project costs and benefits. At the heart of the CoSN VOI Leadership Initiative is the VOI cost-benefit Methodology & Tools which is a proposed project evaluation approach supported by an online project Cost Estimator and a Project Benefits Worksheet. CoSN Resources includes white papers, articles and presentations with CoSN content to provide a better understanding of VOI. Other Resources provides relavent information from other sources, including Gartner's Total Value of Opportunity (TVO). In order to help you understand the VOI concept in real world situations, CoSN developed three VOI Case Studies. The projects investigated are One-to-one Student Computing, Online Learning and Formative Assessment. We could use several more case study examples; submit your case study brief. For more information and support on VOI and for a list of the school leaders and sponsor representatives who advise this initiative for CoSN, see Contact - Advisory Panel. VOI is an important part of technology leadership in times of economic crisis. See CoSN's "Mastering the Moment" initiative for more information on how VOI analysis of proposed projects provide valuable information to K-12 technology leaders in times of economic stress. Permission is granted under a Creative Commons Attribution License to replicate, copy, distribute, transmit, or adapt the information on these pages provided attribution is provided. © CoSN 2010.
CoSN launched its "Taking TCO to the Classroom" project to provide school leaders with tools to help them estimate the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for their networked computing infrastructure. TCO also includes calculations of costs that may not turn up in a budget, but that can still have an impact on school district operations--for example, when teachers must take time out of their day to address their own tech support problems. To better understand how to strategically use a TCO assessment for your school or district, see "About TCO". TCO news articles that have general applicability to K-12 are referenced under "TCO News" which also allows subscription vis RSS feed. CoSN authored articles, newsletters and presentations can be found under "CoSN Resources." "Other Resources" contains general articles and white papers as well as categorized lists of published resources that apply to K-12. At the heart of CoSN's TCO Leadership Initiative is the fully documented "Cosn-Gartner TCO Tool." Supporting the TCO tool are "Tips and Recommendations," for performing a TCO assessment, "Frequently Asked Questions", "Interpreting the results" of a TCO assessment, and eight formal TCO "case Studies" plus three one-to-one studies and school-submitted case studies. When reviewing the input and results of your TCO assessment, it is helpful to review the "Checklist" for efficient operations. TCO is an important part of technology leadership in times of economic crisis. See CoSN's "Mastering the Moment" initiative for more information on how TCO assessments provide valuable information to K-12 technology leaders in times of economic stress. Permission is granted under a Creative Commons Attribution License to replicate, copy, distribute, transmit, or adapt the information on these pages provided attribution is provided. © CoSN 2010. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sunday, December 5, 2010
TCO: Assignment
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