At a recent faculty meeting I [unclear: sugges] we establish as one fo our goals, the attainment of a largre student/staff ratio rather than a smaller one. [unclear: Because] [unclear: sebbled] primarily to consider our Quinquennial Submission, there was not time to consider the mattre with the [unclear: caes] I did accept an invitation to prepare a memo on the subject. This note is a partial response to that [unclear: invitation]

My proposal has two major elements [unclear: mance] and technology.

Collection of such statements [unclear: denaged] [unclear: nventory] of learning units. From these, presented to him in advance, each student selects those he prefers. The [unclear: inver] [unclear: naged] with the aid of technology.

It is not easy to write a [unclear: performance] [unclear: ve]. It is not easy to produce ordered collections of performance objectives and the learning resources used by [unclear: student] them. It is not easy to measure and evaluate the performance of learning resources. Since this memo is not [unclear: at] [unclear: manee], I will defer to a later time additional remarks about the subject and present some suggestions for your [unclear: conside]

This memo is about technology, [unclear: ai] [unclear: ance] of its use in an educational institution as reported in the May 1973 issue of Saturday Review of Education. [unclear: Ac] [unclear: e] article is attached. (You might find it interesting to examine more of the issue much of which is devoted to [unclear: "edua] technology.

I chose this article to present [unclear: my] [unclear: illy)] because it mentions 1) a higher-than-average student/staff ratio of 36/1; 2) a lower-than-average cost per [unclear: student] [unclear: oved] student performance; and 4) Staff satisfaction. That does sound like the millenium, I know, a chimera, [unclear: but] [unclear: nd] it to your attention anyway.

I see the technology-as-an-aid-to-[unclear: e] [unclear: roblem] first and foremost as an investment problem: 1) What is the return [unclear: on] the investment? and 2) Where do [unclear: v] [unclear: capital]? It seemed appropriate to make my remarks in the context of our quin quennial submission and to [unclear: bring] [unclear: u] attention, now, in preparation for the coming budget exercise.