This research explores the difficulties faced by many migrant, refugee, and immigrant adults confronted with technological ubiquity in economically developed countries. Preparing migrant adult learners for the digital world by building digital literacy skills can help to maintain home language proficiency, support English language learning, and…

Article describes an approach which employs a structuring of the user's conceptual reference spaces into sets of "action primitives", peculiar to the type of computer-aided task involved. (Author)

An experiment in which findings indicate that expected interactions among objectives, sequence, and anxiety were not significant. (Author/HB)

A study which considers principles which underlie both computer assisted instruction and special education. (Author/HB)

This study was designed to test effects of a specified degree of learner control over the sequencing of instructional materials in a self contained tutorial CAI course in COBOL programming. Findings describe contributions and interactions of learner controlled variables with respect to instructional effectiveness and efficiency. (RAO)

Paper discusses the philosophy of computer-furthered instruction (CFI) and the design of a particular CFI system used in the required undergraduate course in probability theory and statistics taught in the school of Business at the University of Kansas. (Author)

A brief look at the potential of the computer as an educational research tool. (HB)

The first part of this study was an investigation of the effectiveness of CAI author-language (CHIMP) for preparation and presentation of interactive tutorial and drill-and-practice lessons in the physical sciences. The second part was an investigation of the potential of the language as a vehicle for the study of the learning process. To…

Compares PLATO and non-PLATO student performance in an introductory computer programing course at the University of Illinois. Results indicate that PLATO students would recommend PLATO to friends, that the drop rate was higher for PLATO students than for non-PLATO, but that performance was equal for both groups. (RAO)

In order to obtain student feedback in computer programing courses at Duke University, a computer-based anonymous audience response system was used. This system consisted of a minicomputer, voting consoles, and a large electronic display. Students set their voting consoles in response to the question and the minicomputer interrogated the consoles.…

The four areas of the Computer Based Learning Unit are considered after a brief history is given. The areas are: (1) the computer based teaching system; (2) research; (3) authoring systems and production of teaching material; and (4) initial and in-service training of teachers. The presentation concludes with a view to the future. (MP)

Article concerns preliminary research into teacher reactions and attitudes concerning COMBASI in two distinct instructional settings. (Author)

A Microcomputer-Implemented Design Aid and Simulator (MIDAS) has been developed and used as an interactive learning system by electrical engineering students at the freshman and sophomore level. Evaluation of the system indicates that a great potential exists in the area of dedicated, inexpensive, interactive learning systems. User acceptance has…

A proposed student model consisting of a set of programs to represent the student's knowledge state. Teaching proceeds after a comparative evaluation of student and teacher programs, and learning is represented by direct modification of the student model. The advantages of an explicit procedural model are illustrated by considering a program which…