DOCUMEWT RESUME ED 111 361 IR 002 415 TITLE Computing and the Decision Makers; Where Does Computing Fit in Institutional Priorities? Proceedings of the EDUCOM Spring Conference, April 17-18, 1974. INSTITUTION Interuniversity Ccimunications Council (EDUCOM), Princeton, N. J. PUB DATE 74 NOTE 375p. AVAILABLE FROM EDUCOM, P.O. Box 364, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 ($6.00 EDUCOM Members; $9.00 Others) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.76 HC-$18.40 Plus Postage DESCRIPTORS Computer Assisted Instruction; *Computers; conference Reports; *Decision Making; Educational Development; *Governing Boards; Higher Education; *Institutional Administration; Management Information Systems; State Departments of Education; *Statewide Planning; *Time Sharing IDENTIFIERS *EDUCOM ABSTRACT Proceedings of the EDUCOM 1974 Spring Conferenceare edited and collected under four topic headings related to questions of ever-tightening budgets and relationships between public institutions of higher education and state coordinatingor governing boards. Aspects covered include the development of state-wide resources-sharing arrangements; the ways in which computing can be delivered; resource allocation within an institution; and computing for instruction. Addresses and papers are gathered into 21 subcategories of these four theme-. 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Reproductions* *supplied by EDRS are the best that can he made from the original. * *********************************************************************** COMPUTING and the DECISION MAKERS U 5 DEPARTMENT OFHEALTH, EDUCATION &WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HASSEEN REPRO- DUCED EXACTLY ASRECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATIONORIGIN- ATING IT POINTS OF VIEWOR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILYREPRE SENT OFFICIAL NATIONALINSTITUTE OF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY / WHERE DOES COMPUTING FIT IN INSTITUTIONAL PRIORITIES? PROCEEDINGS of the EDUCOM SPRING CONFERENCE April 17-18,1974 EDUCOM, The Interuniversity Communications Council, Inc. r 3 PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THISCOPY. RIGHTED MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTEDBY a Do C'oAlt To ERIC AND ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING UNDER AGREEMENTS WITH THE NATIONALIN, SMOTE OF EDUCATION FURTHER REPRO. DUCTiON OUTSIDE THE ERIC SYSTEMRE WIRES PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNER Library of Congress Catalog Card Number. 74.84809 Further information and addititAal copies of this book may be obtained from EDUCOM, P.O. Box 364, Princeton, New Jersey 08540. The price per copy is $6.00 for members and $9.00 to nonmembers of EDUCOM. C)I974 EDUCOM, The Interuniversity Communications Council, Inc. Printed in the United States of America 4 Contents Preface 1 Introduction 3 PART I.STATEWIDE SYSTEMS 1. Statewide Systems CHARLES S. MOSMANN 7 2. Forms of Cooperation What is MECC? DONALD HENDERSON 14 Coordinating Autonomy: A Paradox? DAVID S. MACEY 22 3. Functioning Systems Yes: We Will Share E. REX KRUEGER 32 iii 5 Planning and Management Systems at CCHE WILLIAM B. ADRIAN, JR. 39 Statewide Administrative Systems JAMES GAFFNEY 43 State College Computer Net LEO ROOMETS 49 PART II. WAYS IN WHICH COMPUTING CAN BE DELIVERED 4. Delivery of Computing in Academic Institutions LELAND H. WILLIAMS 57 5. Combined or Separate ADP and Academic Computing Introduction JEREMY E. JOHNSON 63 A Combined Center WILLIAM E. WALDEN 65 6. Technical Effects of Delivery Modes Technological Effects on Modes of Delivery CLAIR G. MAPLE 68 Development of a Minicomputer Network to Improve the Delivery of Computer Services JAMES H. TRACEY 74 Technology Impact on Computer Services ARTHUR V. POHM 81 Technical Effects of Modes of Delivery at the University of Nebraska THOMAS MICHELS 84 6 iv 7. Supplier and Consumer Perspectives Southwest Regional Educational Computer Network CHARLES H. WARLICK 91 TUCC Networking from an NCECS Customer's Point of View RICHARD KERNS 99 A Wholesale/Retail Approach to Delivering Computing Power LOUIS T. PARKER, JR. 102 Network: A User's View DONALD L. HARDCASTLE 109 UNICOLL/Penn Relationship: The UNICOLL View H. WILLIAM KNAPP 114 UNICOLL/Penn Relationship: The Penn View JON C. STRAUSS 120 8. Libraries, Data Bases, Computers and LRC's: Are They Converging? Feeforservice Data Center DANIEL U. WILDE 124 Start at the Beginning! JOHN R. MERRILL 129 Convergence of information Technologies THOMAS J. KARWIN 133 PART III. THE PRESIDENT'S PERCEPTION OF COMPUTING 9. A Foreigner in Our Midst RONALD W. ROSKENS 141 10. Evaluatin, Computing Services How Do You Evaluate the Computer Services Delivered? GARY A. WICKLUND 146 How Do You Evaluate the Computer Services Delivered? JEAN ALLARD 149 Evaluation of Computer Services at UW-Madison RICHARD R. HUGHEe 153 Evaluating Computing Services at the University of Minnesota FRANK VERBRUGGE 161 11. Management Information Systems National and Statewide Management Information System Effects in Higher Education GEORGE W. BAUGHMAN 165 A Summary: CBMIS RICHARD L. MANN 177 12. Once the Crunch Comes, What Goes First? Once the Crunch Comes, What Goes First? LATTIE F. COOR 188 The Financial Crunch and Computing at the Liberal Arts College RICHARD B. HOFFMAN 192 University Management of Computing WILLIAM F. LAVERY 198 8 vi 13. Funding Agencies: What Have They Done for You Lately? NSF Technological Innovation in Education ERIK D. McWILLIAMS 202 Ask Not What Funding Agencies Can Do For You... GLENN R. INGRAM 206 NSF Division of Computer Research D. DON AUFENKAMP 210 PART IV. HOW CAN COMPUTINGSERVE INSTRUCTION? 14. How Can Computing Serve Instruction? GERARD P. WEEG 217 15. Creating Instructional Material A Model or Creating and Publishing Instructional Material to Achieve Educational Change A. KENT MORTON 221 Publication of Computer Curriculum Materials at Hewlett Packard Company JEAN H. DANVER 228 Creating Instructional Material DAVID H. AHL 233 16. CONDUIT Dissemination and Exchange CONDUIT: A Partnership for Instructional Change DAVID R. KNIEFEL 236 Technical Problems in Moving Courseware TRINKA DUNNAGAN 241 Computer Influei.ze Peddling TED SJOERDSMA 245 Significant but Reducible: The Cost of Transport JAMES W. JOHNSON 251 17. CONDUIT Guides and Models for Solution of Transport Problems Overview of Alternatives for Transport THOMAS E. KURTZ 255 CONDUIT Cooperation with Project CBE uEORGE H. CULP 257 The Untapped Market for CRCM CLIFFORD F. GRAY 259 Packaging and Repository Activities TRINKA DUNNAGAN 268 18. Hard Core CAI Hard Core CAI: A Progress Report JAMES A. SCHUYLER 271 Design Strategy for Learner- Controlled Courseware C. VICTOR BUNDERSON 276 The PLATO Project: A Status Report DANIEL ALPERT 290 PLANIT: The Portable CAI System CHARLES H. FRYE 296 19. Are Faculty Members Educable? What Do Faculty Members Need to Know About Computers? RONALD CODE 301 10 viii Designing a Better Mousetrap JOSEPH R. DENK 306 Are Faculty Members Educable? GARY A. WICKLUND 315 Training Teacher for Change JO ANN BAUGHMAN 320 20. Institutionalizing Educational Change Can Educational Change be Institutionalized? ARTHUR W. LUEHRMANN 329 One Organization for Educational Change C. VICTOR BUNDERSON 334 The Problem of Institutionalizing Educational Change JOSEPH I. LIPSON 338 PART V. BANQUET ADDRESS 21. Computing Applications in the USSR D. DON AUFEN KAMP Appendix A Conference Participants 357 ix I fl 1:j Preface Two of the most critical problems facing t,olleges and universities today are ever-tightening budgets and relationships between the public institu- tions of higher education and state 4-oordinatingor governing boards. The Spring 1974 EDUCOM Conference "Computing and the Decision Makers. Where Does Computing Fit in Institutional Priorities?" addressed ti.ese issues and others from the viewpoint of the administrator. Forin decisions on questions of funding within an institution and on relationships with state coordinating agencies, it is the administrator who is responsible for institutional finances as well as computing who is the deusion maker. Developing four unique aspects of the conference theme, separate tracks of the conference included, the development of statewideresource sharing arrangements, the ways in which computingcan be delivered, resource allocation within an institution, and computing for instruction. Designedasan opportunityforindividuals with responsibilityfor computing within institutions to meet with the adminisilator who must allocate resources within the institutions, the conferes,..e drewa diverse audience including representatives from l-ulleges , universities, educational service organizations and state coordinating boards. Keynote addresses and papers presented in panels and workshops have been edited and collected in the followingpages. Further inf,.rmation concerning any of the systems or application, describedin these chapters can best be obtained by writing directly to the author of the presentation. The names and addresses of all confererm participantsare listed in an appendix. On behalf of all the conferees, I want to extend sincere thanksto the conference chairman, Gerard P. Weeg, for the