Designed to test the premise that the production system for courseware has a strong impact on the quality of the courseware developed, a survey of 14 U.S. institutions of higher education was conducted in 1986 to investigate the production systems used by these schools. Many of the questions used and the list of institutions surveyed were extracted from a similar study conducted by Potts in 1979, and some additional complementary questions were added. Seven of the schools responded for a response rate of 50%. The results of the follow-up survey showed that, as in 1979, most of the schools found the team strategy in courseware development to be more satisfactory than the individual approach. In addition, nearly all respondents agreed that an instructional system design (ISD) approach should be followed in a systematic fashion, although there does not appear to be a unique ISD procedure or model that would fit the needs of all institutions of higher education. In addition to the emerging micro-based authoring languages, BASIC and PASCAL continue to be important implementation languages for the schools surveyed, combined with main frame computer authoring languages. The text is supplemented with eight tables, and three references are provided. (Author/EW)