This manual for authors of lessons to be used with the PLATO interactive computer system provides an overview of the system, describes its characteristics, and provides detailed instructions for the use of system features to author a lesson. An introductory chapter describes sign on procedures and various online features available to the author,…

CAI201, a training program that takes students through the training program design process, is conducted via computer assisted instruction (CAI), and is directed toward the individual who has been charged with designing a training program but who lacks an understanding of how to proceed. This manual provides the program designer with background…

This manual is the student's main source of information about the BASIC Instructional Program (BIP), a "hands-on laboratory" that teaches elementary programming in the BASIC language, and the BASIC language itself. The manual is organized as a reference document for students with no previous programming experience. Three major sections…

This manual is the student's main source of information about the BASIC Instructional Program (BIP), a "hands-on laboratory" that teaches elementary programming in the BASIC language, which has been converted into MAINSAIL, a language designed for portability on a broad class of computers. The manual is organized as a reference document…

This final report contains some narrative material and the products of a project to design and conduct inservice training for vocational educators to enable them to incorporate the Computer Assisted Vocational Mathematics Program into their curriculum. (Computer Assisted Vocational Mathematics is designed to increase students' knowledge of applied…

This self-instruction guide for online searching using DIALOG or ORBIT search systems, developed at the University of Pittsburgh, is designed to allow users of scientific and technical information to access databases without an intermediary. The guide is segmented into three parts: the basic TRAINER manual and separate textual representations of…

This is a self-study manual designed for freshman or sophomore engineering students who have interest in the organizational and operational concepts of the digital computer, but little or no experience with such computers. The manual gives an introduction to a general purpose minicomputer, Digital Equipments Corporation's PDP-8. (MK)

Intended to serve as a guide to the development of basic computer competencies for students in teacher preparation programs or as inservice training for teachers, this primarily self-instructional manual provides basic information, worksheets, computer programs, and hands-on learning activities for 16 proficiencies related to computer literacy.…