The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications has supported a program to develop a Plasma Terminal System for purposes of improving the effective delivery of computer based educational materials. This system, employing recent advances in microprocessing and storage technologies, will provide new alternatives for present users of…

This manual describes a text processing system developed to teach relatively inexperienced users how to enter and edit textual materials. Also provided is information on storage and system maintenance for the system manager. It contains nine sections and two appendices with sections two through nine arranged in a sequence which corresponds closely…

The PLATO IV computer-based educational system contains its own communications hardware and software for operating plasma-panel graphics terminals. Key echoing is performed by the central processing unit: every key pressed at a terminal passes through the entire system before anything appears on the terminal's screen. Each terminal is guaranteed…

Written to answer the questions a teacher or administrator may have about the instructional use of computers, this book is particularly concerned with those applications of the computer in which the high school student, not a teacher or a member of the administrative staff, is "in the loop," or interacting with the computer. Acquisition…