Scholarship > Clipper Project

The goal of the Clipper Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, was to study the effects of offering web-based introductory college courses to high school seniors. The project considered four factors: implementation considerations, cost considerations, student learning outcomes, faculty teaching outcomes. The National Commission on the High School Senior Year recognized the Clipper Project as a model program (page 45). You may click here to read what Wired magazine wrote about the Clipper Project.  Read the final report here.

Publications and presentations related to the Clipper Project:

Clipper press release

Clipper in the news in 1999

Farrington, G.C. & Bronack, S.C. (2001, May). Higher education online: How do we know what works --- and what doesn't? Technological Horizons in Education Journal, 28(10) p.70-76.

Bronack, S. C. & Chapman, T. A. (2001). The clipper project: An introduction to the impact of web-based courses on pre-baccalaureate students. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications, (2001),1 p 199-201.

Bronack, S.C., Chapman, T.A, & DiPerna, J.C. (2001, October). The Clipper Project: Designing effective web-based courses for pre-baccalaureate students. World Conference on the WWW and Internet, Orlando, Florida.

Bronack, S.C. & Foley, T.J. (2001, July). The clipper project takes off. Syllabus Conference. Santa Clara, California.