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Computers in Education: An Overview. Publication Number One. Software Engineering/Education Cooperative Project.
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Collis, Betty; Muir, Walter – 1984
The first of four major sections in this report presents an overview of the background and evolution of computer applications to learning and teaching. It begins with the early attempts toward "automated teaching" of the 1920s, and the "teaching machines" of B. F. Skinner of the 1940s through the 1960s. It then traces the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education