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Peer reviewedRobinson, Michael – Instructional Science, 1979
Application of cybernetic laws and information processing principles suggests that traditional and modern teaching methods are radically incompatible, in the sense that techniques developed in the one cannot be transferred to the other without dislocation of the system as a whole. (Author/WBC)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Cybernetics
Moes, Robert J. – Optical Information Systems, 1986
Representing the point of view of Philips Subsystems and Peripherals on Compact Disc-Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) and Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-I) issues, this position paper attempts to point out differences and similarities between the basic CD-ROM standard and the CD-I standard proposed for interactive use of data. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Design, Development, Information Processing
Elliott, John D. – 1988
This essay considers whether the brain can accelerate the speed with which it absorbs or dispenses information in ways similar to those of a computer, and, if so, whether any of these speed-up approaches increase the speed of the processing of the information in the brain. It is suggested that there are tasks for which speed is important in both…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Computers, Cybernetics
Download full textVandendorpe, Mary M. – 1985
This paper discusses a model of information storage and retrieval, the k-d tree (Bentley, 1975), a binary, hierarchical tree with multiple associate terms, which has been explored in computer research, and it is suggested that this model could be useful for describing human cognition. Included are two models of human long-term memory--networks and…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Low, William C. – Journal of Instructional Development, 1980
Examines the implications of cognitive psychology for some of the fundamental components of instructional development. Behaviorism and information processing are compared in their relationships to instructional design, and potential changes for such ideas as objectives, evaluation, instructional taxonomies, content analysis, and instructional…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Bibliographies, Classification, Comparative Analysis
Harvey, Lisa St. Clair – 1979
A comparative study of two types of media, a newspaper and a museum, reveals substantive differences in the ways each of these communications organizations alters the information which it presents to the public. Interviews conducted with spokespeople from the Washington Post and the Smithsonian Institution focused on three major theories of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Influence, Comparative Analysis, Information Dissemination
Wells, Amy Tracy – 1993
The ERIC and LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) databases are compared through a literature review and the analysis of an online search on a topic in librarianship. ERIC emphasizes education and includes serials, monographs, collections, and research reports for their coverage of some aspect of education. LISA is dedicated to topics…
Descriptors: Authority Control (Information), Bibliographic Databases, Clearinghouses, Comparative Analysis
