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Lake, Karen E. – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1980
Renewed Expectations for Adults in Continuing Higher Education (Project REACH) provides educational services tailored to the needs of blue-collar workers, including courses on audiocassette tapes and simplified registration procedures. The program has been enthusiastically received by people who had faced many barriers to continuing education. (SK)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Audiotape Cassettes, Autoinstructional Aids, Blue Collar Occupations
Dyman, Daniel J. – 1979
A description of the Didactor, a "computer-type teaching machine," is given. Also included are results of a comparison of student test results for Didactor-taught and control groups receiving instruction through an audio-tape tutorial mode. (MK)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Media
Shaw, William E. – 1983
Developed in response to the heterogeneous student population of a two-year, open door college, a self-paced freshman English course at Brazosport College (Texas) still operates within the traditional contact hour and three semester hours credit requirements, but serves students in unique, individual ways. Students may enroll only if placed by…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, College English, College Freshmen, English Instruction
Faconti, Victor; Epps, Robert – 1975
The Advanced Simulator for Undergraduate Pilot Training (ASUPT) was designed to investigate the role of simulation in the future Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) program. The Automated Instructional System designed for the ASUPT simulator was described in this report. The development of the Automated Instructional System for ASUPT was based upon…
Descriptors: Aircraft Pilots, Autoinstructional Aids, Aviation Technology, Educational Programs
Pannwitt, Barbara – Curriculum Report, 1984
The last of a three-part series on computer-assisted instruction (CAI), this report describes microcomputer applications in special education, music, visual arts, speech arts and drama, home economics, and industrial/vocational arts. Under each subject heading, current and developing computer applications are discussed and specific courseware…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Educational Technology
Lyman, Elisabeth R. – 1968
This report contains instructions for the use of GENERAL, a tutorial type teaching logic developed for the PLATO system. The logic of GENERAL is first introduced and diagrammed for the user. Then lesson planning for program authors is discussed in terms of format rules, branching pages, challenge pages, and information retrieval pages. Control…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs
Pannwitt, Barbara – Curriculum Report, 1984
The second of a three-part series on computer-assisted instruction (CAI), this report focuses on the use of microcomputers in business education, English, social studies, foreign languages, bilingual education, and ESL (English as a Second Language). Since all these areas involve writing, a discussion of word processors and word processing…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Business Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development

Henderson, Jerome D. – 1980
A self-instructional approach used at Central Michigan University to teach basic broadcasting techniques to students in a basic production course is described in this paper. Separate sections discuss the following topics: (1) problems involved in attempting to provide large numbers of students with hands-on training in broadcast production; (2)…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Behavioral Objectives, Broadcast Industry, Course Content
Lutz, Kathy A. – 1973
An exploratory study was conducted to test the assumption that multimode knowledge of results is superior to traditionally presented knowledge of results in maintaining a student's interest and attention. In addition, the relative merit of pictorial format in a lesson was compared with a basic lesson display. The study involved 32 kindergarten…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics
Sherwood, Bruce Arne – 1974
This document explains the TUTOR language which is used by teachers to create or author lesson materials on the PLATO IV computer-based education system. After an introductory section, the second section explains how to display text and line drawings to students. The third section introduces subroutines, and it is followed by explanations of…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Oriented Programs
Pannwitt, Barbara – Curriculum Report, 1983
The first of a three-part series on computer-assisted instruction (CAI), this report describes 11 exemplary programs across the country that involve the use of microcomputers for instruction in computer science, mathematics, and science at the elementary and secondary levels. At the head of each description are the name and address of the school…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Business Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
Follettie, Joseph F. – 1972
Positive and negative implications of the eventuality that American homes will be equipped to provide interactive instruction in the home well before the end of the century are discussed, together with the limitations appropriate to such instruction. Home and rural schools are compared as potential sites for purposes of longer-term planning with…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Cable Television, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers
Shapiro, Karen Rosenkrantz – 1982
Experiences with computer education at the Bank of America suggest that, when educating nontechnical people to use computers, formal learning environments are not as effective as informal learning environments. It has become increasingly necessary to use informal training to educate the approximately 4,000 people who need the training because of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers
Mackie, Marlena Kay Baldrige – 1981
A prototype for the development of an auto-tutorial course in anatomy and physiology for adult learners in Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) was implemented in the fall semester, 1980, at Waukesha County Technical Institute in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. The format of the two-semester course consists of two hours of scheduled lecture time and three hours of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Anatomy, Associate Degrees