ERIC Number: ED291264
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 76
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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)
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Budgeting, Business Administration Education, College Faculty, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Evaluation, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Microcomputers, Models, Planning, Teacher Attitudes
Information Systems Research Program, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1481 ($7.50).
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Non-Classroom
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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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