PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION IS SEEN AS A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF TEACHING ORGANIZED AND DESIGNED TO MEET THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE OF EFFICIENT INDIVIDUAL LEARNING. ITS METHODS PROVIDE THE MEANS FOR RESOLVING THE BROAD SCOPE OF INSTRUCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS WHICH INCLUDE THE NEED FOR BOTH INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP INSTRUCTION. THE SYSTEMS APPROACH CONCEPT, ORIGINALLY…

The 18 articles presented in this book were selected from Educational Technology magazine. Criteria for selection were both the facility shown by the authors in their use of the English language and the applicability of the articles in explaining educational technology and the impact of technology generally to the novice educator. Various elements…

A review was made of current practices, problems, and related efforts to improve public education. It showed that teachers have been asked to perform an impossible instructional task, and to improve public education a systematic study of the important relevant variables must be initiated. These findings need to be implemented in systematic…

With the computer and the environments it makes possible, the author feels, we are on the threshold of being able to coalesce the study of learning and the prescription of instruction. To accomplish this, however, man must change his egocentric views concerning the value of traditional education. In the future, he predicts, an interdisciplinary…