Presents a simple matrix that is used for budgeting the machine time, people, and equipment necessary to maintain and enhance administrative systems as well as to develop new systems in an organized fashion. (Author)

The thirteenth in a series of profiles documenting experiences with the use of instructional technology describes how computer usage has come to be a routine activity among the students and faculty of Dartmouth College. (Author/MLF)

A simulated chemistry experiment which has been programmed is described in detail. (Author)

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)

A pictorial description of the functions of Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). (HB)

A simulated chemistry experiment which has been programmed is described in detail. (Author)

This paper is concerned with providing automatically generated online explanations to the user of a user interface or "tool" about what the interface can and cannot do, and what parameters or options are available or required with a given command. The COUSIN interface system, developed at Carnegie-Mellon, supplies a cooperative…

A process model to explain bugs produced by novices early in a programming course are presented. (The term "bug" refers to an error in a person's behavior, particularly an error in a computer program they have written.) The model is motivated by interviews of novice programmers solving simple programming problems. The key idea is that…

Arguments for the inclusion of computer studies as a part of a general secondary education are considered. Suggestions are made for addressing the issues of the role of the computer in society, as well as for using the computer as a part of the mathematics curriculum. (DT)

The computerized office procedures class, through the "learning-by-doing" approach, uses three instructional modules incorporating practical computer-based projects. (BP)

Requirements for a desirable authoring system are reviewed and a proposal for an interrogative authoring system presented. (Author)

An introduction to the main features of TUTOR, the language in which instructional material is prepared for the PLATO Computer-based Education System. (Author)