This guide is intended to serve as a resource for business education instructors who are teaching a course in information processing for the automated office. The following topics are covered: program goals, student learning objectives for production applications, an introduction to production applications, a curriculum outline, student learning objectives and competencies for machine dictation and transcription, a curriculum outline for machine dictation and transcription, student learning objectives and competencies for word processing, definitions of key terms, a word processing curriculum outline, and evaluation criteria. Appendixes that comprise three-quarters of the document include an information processing glossary, dictation learning activities and a grading scale, office productivity standards, sample proposals, selected lists of publications and resource materials, and discussions of professional leadership/development, applying technology in office automation and telecommunication, and integrating office automation concepts into business education classes. (MN)