COMPUTERS IN SYSTEMS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

摘要

Designing an information system requires that the administrator think carefully and make very explicit his objectives and criteria, and some observers feel that such an Imperative is a useful discipline in its own right. As the need for regional and inter-institutional use of computer and information systems increases, new arrangements will he needed for cooperation, both vertically and horizontally, among and between institutions and their governing or regulatory boards. Steps will have to be taken to provide training and orientation for all levels of management in higher education, especially in the training of novice administrators who will manage tomorrow's systems of higher education. Using the existing technology (not all of it as yet widely disseminated or well understood),it is possible to draw a picture of the university of tomorrow in which the computer with its attendant peripheral equipment and software systems, will be a basic and indispensable part of the fabric of management as well as of the total operating and instructional program of the institution. The main problem at the moment is not the technology, which has outpaced its users in higher education, but dissemination, development, and the training of appropriate personnel