Typical prevailing task analysis really is skill analysis whose product is a set of generic tasks considered to exhaust or sufficiently sample a skill domain. This approach yields tasks as the base entities of analysis; any understanding of interrelations of structures in the skill architecture in consequence must occur--if at all--above the level…

It is posited that primary desired functions of an educational system are relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency, and that the objective of educational system design is state-of-the-art optimization of these functions. Based on this view, gross structures of the educational system and of associated educational architectural models addressing…

Southwest Regional Laboratory IDCMS (Instructional Development Control and Monitoring System) will be a flexible hardware system for controlling and monitoring instruction and research in the laboratory setting. This paper seeks to introduce potential users to the system and software designers to representative challenges that system exploitation…