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The BRIDGE Model
The California State University's Chancellor's Office and Educause's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative collaborated to create a costing tool with goals different from TCM's. The BRIDGE Model allows you to take known costs of technology used in mediated-instruction and to compare and project the effects of projecting those costs across a campus or several campuses. Dr. Frank Jewett, retired from California State University created the BRIDGE Model.
TCM/BRIDGE Project
The objectives of the TCM/BRIDGE Project were:
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To use the BRIDGE Model and methodology as a "cross check" on the TCM course costing methodology.
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To develop a link between the TCM Project and BRIDGE that would allow TCM cost data to be used directly as input to the BRIDGE cost simulations. TCM would allow costs to be analyzed at the course level. These costs could then be used in the BRIDGE Model to project how they might affect costs at a campus level.
These two outcomes resulted in a more robust set of costing methodologies, a better set of TCM case studies, and an improved, more thoroughly tested BRIDGE model.
In late 2001, California State University decided to no longer support or host the BRIDGE project on its web site. An agreement between the Chancellor's Office of California State University and WCET that allows WCET to host the BRIDGE project on its TCM Web site.
You may download a copy of the BRIDGE Model for free. You may also obtain a CD-ROM which includes all TCM products.
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 
