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Download full textMontague, William E.; Wulfeck, Wallace H., II – 1983
The dramatic and increasing availabilty of relatively cheap computer power has led people to tout microcomputers as the solution to education and training problems. However, such panaceas for educational problems fail because they do not address the real ingredients for successful instruction or the problems of large-scale implementation.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Epistemology, Instructional Design, Instructional Innovation
Dozier, David M. – 1985
This monograph defines and describes research in the study of adoption of electronic text services in higher education institutions. Electronic text here includes text and graphic information encoded and transmitted via broadcast, signal, or cable, under user control. It places the diffusion of electronic text in higher education within the…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Diffusion (Communication)
Collis, Betty – 1988
This essay considers several areas of research in computer technology for education in North America and the implications of these areas of focus for the implementation of educational computer technologies in developing nations. The five areas of focus are: (1) curriculum integration, or the general rationale for using computer technology in…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Cultural Differences, Developed Nations
National Advisory Council for Computer Implementation in Schools, Tucson, AZ. – 1984
Problems and issues related to the financing and use of educational technologies in Arizona schools are addressed from both short- and long-term considerations. A brief review of the spread of computers in schools includes projections for future use of computers in education and a discussion of factors affecting the market, the convergence of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Donors, Educational Planning
Olson, John K. – 1984
A preliminary case study used repertory grid and stimulated recall techniques to examine how teachers make sense of the impact of microcomputers on their work. Emphasis was on how teachers construe their classroom influence in relation to the actual use of microcomputers and to idealizations of their use. A version of the Kelly (1955) repgrid was…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction
Gall, Robert S. – 1985
Rural-based special educators are examining the use of microcomputer technology to provide service to special education students. Recent literature is replete with examples of situations where microcomputer telecommunications have altered the isolation of special need populations in areas of communication, computer access, environmental control,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Information, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction
Lipson, Joseph I. – 1984
This monograph provides a vision of the future for vocational educators in a position to improve programs, such as teachers and administrators of local educational agencies and state leaders who set priorities in educational agencies. The monograph addresses nationwide technological concerns of the computer, image storage and creation, and…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Communications, Computer Assisted Instruction
