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Johnson, Mark William; Sherlock, David – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
The Personal Learning Environment (PLE) has been presented in a number of guises over a period of 10 years as an intervention which seeks the reorganisation of educational technology through shifting the "locus of control" of technology towards the learner. In the intervening period to the present, a number of initiatives have attempted…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Intervention, Educational Technology, Locus of Control
Richman, Joel S. – Educational Technology, 1975
Article describes a pilot project emphasizing information exchange via educational technology as the primary means for enabling a traditional extension course to function as a reality based inservice training prototype. (Author)
Descriptors: Cybernetics, Educational Technology, Extension Education, Models
Kean, John M., Ed. – 1969
This four-volume report includes position papers and specifications for the elementary teacher education program of the University of Wisconsin in the year 1975 and beyond. Volume 1 includes a series of 12 position papers which cover topics ranging from teacher roles and systems approaches to instruction to control and management procedures for…
Descriptors: Cybernetics, Educational Specifications, Educational Technology, Elementary Education
Offir, Joseph – 1976
This paper presents the concepts of a computer-directed system to improve human performance in structured learning situations. Attention is focused on finite-state systems in order to provide a systematic method for constructing training systems and to assist in analysis of problem solving and curriculum planning. The finite-state approach allows…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Cybernetics
Schwier, Richard A. – 1993
A classification scheme for multimedia interaction is described based on the degree of control and type of cognitive engagement experienced by learners in prescriptive, democratic, and cybernetic independent learning environments. Reactive, proactive, and mutual levels of interaction and their associated functions and transactions are discussed.…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cybernetics, Democracy
Heinich, Robert – 1970
In his book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions," T.S. Kuhn suggests that incipient paradigm changes in science may be detected by examining certain shifts in emphasis in the literature of a particular field. If we grant his premise, the same possibility may be true in education. An examination of recent literature shows a shift toward a…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Cybernetics, Educational Innovation, Educational Media
Suppes, Patrick; And Others – 1968
A review of the possibilities and challenges of computer-assisted instruction (CAI), and a brief history of CAI projects at Stanford serve to give the reader the context of the particular program described and analyzed in this book. The 1965-66 arithmetic drill-and-practice program is described, summarizing the curriculum and project operation. An…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Computers