Teaching machines: learning from the intersection of education and technology

Examines past attempts to automate instruction from the earliest use of the postal service for distance education to the current maelstrom surrounding Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The author tells the stories of the entrepreneurs and visionaries who developed and promoted various instruction...

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1. Verfasser: Ferster, Bill 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:Tech.edu : a Hopkins series on education and technology
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Zusammenfassung:Examines past attempts to automate instruction from the earliest use of the postal service for distance education to the current maelstrom surrounding Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The author tells the stories of the entrepreneurs and visionaries who developed and promoted various instructional technologies. Ferster describes attempts to enhance the classroom experience with machines, from hornbooks, the Chautauqua movement, and correspondence courses to B.F. Skinner's teaching machine, intelligent tutoring systems, and eLearning. Teaching Machines provides invaluable insight into our current debate over the efficacy of educational technology
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- The sage on the stage -- Step by step -- Byte by byte -- From the cloud -- Making sense of teaching machines
Beschreibung:XIV, 199 S. Ill.
ISBN:9781421415406

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