[comp.edu] micro lab software/courseware acquisition

david@uhccux.UUCP (David Lassner) (09/12/87)

I'm interested in information on how other places acquire software
for use in general-purpose or instructional microcomputer labs in
educational institutions.  If you run such a lab, do you buy everything
that anyone asks for?  Do your clients (faculty and departments) buy
software and give it to you to administer in the lab?  Do people make
requests which are reviewed by a committee?  Do you make the decisions
yourself?  I'm particularly interested in these questions as they
apply to CAI software for which there are incredibly divergent opinions
on the same products from faculty within the same department, but the
same applies even to choosing a compiler for student use in a CS class.

E-mail to me, and I'll post a summary back to the net.
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