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)

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)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…