Projects
Online learning
- Mellon Foundation/Cost of Distance Learning
- With funding from the Andrew Mellon Foundation through George Mason University, Dr. Milam compared the net costs of online versus traditional delivery of pairs of courses at George Mason University in 1998-2000. As part of this research, he co-authored the Flashlight Cost Analysis Handbook. The study diverged from the basic activity-based costing approach in several respects. There was less interest in documenting the cost of specific tasks or activities, because data on faculty workload were not gathered at this level of specificity. Rather, there is a more direct application of the basic micro-costing techniques used in indirect cost recovery and supported in the literature of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). A revised edition of the Flashlight Handbook was also published.
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