Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1972 [PAGE 375]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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operation of P L A T O I V consoles not only at the University of Illinois but also in several other institutions at the public-school and community-college levels. These include elementary schools in the Chicago, Urbana, and Champaign school districts as well as Parkland Community College and the City Colleges of Chicago. It is proposed to establish a set of cooperative programs, each involving selected University of Illinois staff together with teachers or specialists from a given institution, committed to curriculum planning and development, teacher/ author training, and cooperative test and evaluation of computer-based instruction in the cooperating institution. I n order to initiate such programs, the Dean of the Graduate College at the Urbana-Champaign campus requests that the Board of Trustees authorize the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding with each of the cooperating institutions, which would describe the principal features of the cooperative effort and delineate the responsibilities to be assumed by the respective institutions. The broad conditions for such cooperative programs are summarized as follows: 1. T h e Computer-based Education Research Laboratory ( C E R L ) — w h i c h is a unit of the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign— is initiating a major program of demonstration and evaluation of the P L A T O I V computer-based education system with support to be sought from the National Science Foundation and other agencies. A part of this program includes the installation of student consoles in several community colleges and elementary schools with the subsequent utilization of these consoles in the direct instructional program of these institutions using curricular materials developed jointly by the University of Illinois and faculty members from the various schools. If funds are available, it is understood that C E R L will provide to the various institutions a total of approximately 2S0 student consoles during 1972 and 1973, the number to be installed at a given school to be specified in the Memorandum. These consoles will be connected on-line to the CDC 6400 computer at C E R L ; the consoles, computer time, and the required technical assistance will be supplied by C E R L at no direct cost to the school in question. 2. Regular instruction and evaluation of the program at other institutions will be initiated in September of 1973; barring unforeseen problems the demonstration experiment will continue until January 1976. Although the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory does not anticipate direct involvement in this program beyond this termination date, it will work with the various institutions to assure continuity and expansion of the use of computer-based education in future years. 3. T h e institution in question will supply the required physical facilities for installation, testing, and operation of the student consoles and will seek funds to cover the communication costs. 4. T h e cooperating institution will supply teachers and specialists, dependent upon the resources available, to take part in program planning, curriculum development, program testing, and student operational support during the developmental period. These personnel will cooperate in the C E R L demonstration/evaluation program toward the attainment of the objectives of that program. 5. Each cooperative program will be reviewed periodically by an appropriate officer from the institution in question, the Director of the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, and the Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a view to making administrative arrangements or modifications as necessary to assure the continuity and success of the program. T h e Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus, the Executive Vice President and Provost, and the Vice President and Comptroller recommend that, subject to the availability of funds, authorization be granted for the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding with each cooperating institution. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . H a h n , a u t h o r i t y w a s g r a n t e d a s r e c o m m e n d e d .