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ERIC Number: ED291264
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 76
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
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Available Date: N/A
The Microcomputerization of Business Schools. Part I: General Strategies, Lessons, and Issues. Part II: A Case Study of the UCLA Graduate School of Management.
Frand, Jason L.
Part I (General Strategies, Lessons and Issues) of this two-part analysis of the microcomputerization process describes strategies schools have followed in their microcomputerization efforts and the lessons and issues that have emerged. Part I covers the following: strategies for introducing microcomputers into the curriculum (the saturation, selective, individual supportive and departmental supportive models); general lessons (academic leadership, faculty comfort with computers, "real" cost of computerization, rate of computerization, and the "age myth"); strategic issues (lack of goals, evaluation, incentives and rewards, management leadership, campus relationships, and funding sources); operational issues (short-term planning, role of mainframes, equipment obsolescence and maintenance, staffing, and the budgetary process); and instructional issues (selection of courses to be integrated, faculty responsibility, teaching style and motivation, equipment barriers, courseware and software constraints, lack of data, courseware development support, and student in-class use of computers). Part II, a case study of the microcomputerization experience at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Graduate School of Management, covers the decision process, the social-technical environment, the hardware allocation process, curriculum integration, impact of the microcomputerization effort, and a projection of the school's computing environment in 1990. A budget analysis is appended. (KM)
Information Systems Research Program, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1481 ($7.50).
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Administrators; Teachers; Media Staff; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY.; Hewlett-Packard Co. Foundation, Palo Alto, CA.
Authoring Institution: California Univ., Los Angeles. Graduate School of Management.
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Author Affiliations: N/A