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Truman, Gregory E.; Pachamanova, Dessislava A.; Goldstein, Michael A. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2010
InterCon provides services to health insurers of foreign tourists who travel to the United States and Canada. Management wants to implement a new information system that will deal with several operational problems, but it is having difficulty securing the capital resources to fund the system's development. After an initial failure, the chief…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Services, Travel
DAMANS and Associates, Rockville, MD. – 1982
Eight appendices provide information related to a study which was conducted to determine the feasibility of introducing new automatic techniques to Army library technical processing activities; to examine and recommend appropriate systems and configurations for library automation; and to determine costs of implementing the recommendations. The…
Descriptors: Costs, Interviews, Library Automation, Library Research
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Pratt, S. J. – Computers and Education, 1985
Emphasizing more effective use of existing equipment, this article highlights distributed computing design considerations applicable to educational environments; identifies potential roles of networking in the provision of adequate teaching aids; presents a networking model; and describes the development of a distributed computing configuration at…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Costs, Design Requirements, Electronic Equipment
Rogers, Donald D.; Weinstein, Claire – 1974
A description is provided of the format used to estimate the costs associated with the development and operation of a computer-managed instructional system. Total costs are conceptualized as a function of the number of hours devoted to each stage of the project and the cost per hour. The data management systems which were developed required…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates
Cline, Charles H. – 1974
The study discusses the problem of reporting program development costs and estimating service delivery cost. One adequate system is described. Based on field investigations, that system is compared with those of the National Institute of Education (NIE) career education projects. Chapter two contains a discussion of cost related concepts and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Costs
Stolurow, Lawrence M. – 1968
Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) attacks one of the greatest problems of education--how to get sufficient variety in educational materials to teach each individual without requiring a group of trained personnel to prepare all possible variations. CAI permits individualization electronically. CAI can be used to train problem solving, for drill…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Costs, Game Theory