An international conference was held to allow experts from Japan, Europe, and the United States to share their views and experiences concerning the role that computers should play in higher education. The recommendations of the conference members are summarized here. First an introductory section provides an overview of educational technology,…

The Documentation Coordination and Research Incentive Unit (UCODI) is part of an international effort to increase cooperation and coordination in investigations of the possibilities of computer-assisted instruction by providing documentation, information, coordination of research incentives, advice, and assistance to researchers, teachers, and…

The position papers presented at a seminar held in 1969 at Leeds University are the basis of this report. The papers cover the topics of computers in education, learning systems, planning and management, hardware and engineering, development processes in computer assisted instruction (CAI), and economic problems. The 46 participants at the seminar…

Eighty papers which were presented at the Conference on Programmed Learning and Educational Technology held in Glasgow, Scotland in 1968 are compiled in this volume. Contributors were encouraged to discuss plans and work in progress, rather than finished pieces of experimental research. The papers cover fundamental research into educational…

A special issue of the journal "On Line" is devoted to reporting the 1974 Instructional Computing in Michigan conference. The conference was divided into numerous sessions, and there are individual reports summarizing the activities and papers of each session. The sessions reported are on the instructional computing aspects of…

This review has a section devoted to each of the following conference topics: Monographs, Film, Experiment Sequences, Computer-assisted Instruction, Designing a Unit of Instruction, and Toward New Solutions. Each section contains background discussion on the rationale, philosophy, and importance for improvements in the area being considered. The…

This conference provided an opportunity for those interested in the delivery of computer services to universities to gain a better perspective of computer technology in education, in a context of financial crisis and structural change. The focus was upon five broad areas. The first of these dealt with the role of the computer in a changing…

Presents abstracts of the plenary lectures and contributed papers of a conference that covered the following areas: laboratory organization, integrated laboratory, instructional aids and equipment, computers, and general chemistry laboratory. (GS)

The document consists of keynote speeches and discussion papers from the 1971 Symposium on Research and Utilization of Educational Media for Teaching the Deaf, which had as its general theme programed instruction (PI) for the deaf. The 14 papers cover the impact of PI at the Southwest Regional Media Center for the Deaf, evaluation of PI materials,…

APL is a computer language (A Programing Language). Papers at this conference of APL users deal with the following topics: an APL approach to interactive display terminals; graphics in APL; an interactive APL graphics system; modeling a satellite experiment on APL; representing negative integers in bit vectors; APL as a teaching tool--two…

A summary of speeches, panel presentations and discussions at the Rio Symposium on computer education for developing countries, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in August, 1972. (HB)

Recent decades in the Soviet Union have witnessed a prolific growth of technology. The school system has been under pressure to become more systematic and to supply more qualified candidates to meet the demand of industry. Computer technology has been introduced in order to facilitate more detailed attention to educational objectives.…

A collection of ten papers selected from those presented at the Special Conference on Instructional Technology (San Antonio, Texas, December 1-4, 1970) consider the use and evaluation of instructional technology in the classroom. Papers examine such areas as stimulation of the learning process through technology, the use of the paraprofessional as…