REPORT To Know in Part : Publishers, Computers in Instruction, and CONDUI T Summary of Conclusions from a Series of Interviews Made for CONDUI T John M . Neviso n CONDUIT Administrato r Dartmouth Colleg e I . Introductio n One possible future activity of Project CONDUIT (for more background o n CONDUIT, see Vol . 6, Nos . 1 and 3, and Vol . 7, No . 4 of the SIGCUE Bulletin ; or contact CONDUIT Central, P .O . Box 388, Iowa City, Iowa 52240,--Ed .) is th e distribution of well-prepared computer-based packages to academic compute r centers for use in college courses . Little is presently known about th e market for such packages . In an publishers one market the market effort to find out more about this market, several textboo k in Boston and New York were interviewed . With the exception o f survey, they had little to offer but a sympathetic curiosity abou t and the sales figures of recent books . Next, eight large vendors of computers to universities were asked fo r their estimates of the number of students using computers and the languag e these students used
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