Resources - book, articles, videos

Two-page handout to introduce 3fold strategic thinking to people who don’t know anything about it: https://bit.ly/4gaVGKx

The book: the most comprehensive summary of relevant literature, the methodology, findings, and recommendations to institutions and policymakers is Pursuing Quality, Access, and Affordability: A Field Guide to Improving Higher Education. For information about the book and how to order it: www.routledge.com/9781620369913

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3-minute video summarizing a few of the book’s key points http://bit.ly/pursuing-intro.

EDUCAUSE Review: Four ways in which institutions can use technology to expand and enrich High Impact Practices and online learning in ways that simultaneously improve quality, equity, and affordability: https://bit.ly/3fold-edtech

Liberal Education article describing the 3fold gain framework, spotlighting the need for cross-sector coalitions to achieve 3fold gains: https://www.aacu.org/article/improving-quality-access-and-affordability

This 8-minute video (https://bit.ly/3folddefinitions ) illustrates how institutional constellations can be assembled to make 3fold gains.

YouTube playlist of talks and webinars about this research: https://bit.ly/3foldplaylist

The article that was most influential in developing our view of paradigm shift was Barr and Tagg’s classic article describing higher education’s slow shift from an instruction paradigm (organizing education around content delivery) toward learning paradigm (improving what many kinds of students actually learn.