]R E"P 0 R T S'J MEANS FOR STUDENT ACCESS TO COMPUTERS: AN OUTLINE Karl L. Zinn The University of Texas at Austin (on leave from the University of Michigan) In the interest of promoting discussion of alternative means for providing economical and effective access to relevant computing resources, and as an indication of the domain for a SIGCUE Task Force in this area, this note provides a very tentative outline. program preparation, storage, In addition to listing alternatives and user communication, for transmission, I have inciuded two brief examples to suggest possible relevance of the outline to new use of computing in a small college and the support of a computer studies program in a secondary school. A few lines at the end suggest cost analysis considerations; perhaps this last section more than any other of the outline requires elaboration. This outline originated late one night during an OECD working conference on computers in secondary schools (reported in this Bulletin April 1970) after In rough a long and sometimes frustrating discussion of means and resources. form, it was adopted in plenary session of that conference to provide a reference point for a recommendation on collecting, information. evaluating
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