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Technology and the Future of Education
Overview Technology, in various forms, has always held forth the promise of improving education. This is true whether one speaks of scholastic education or its cousins, corporate and commercial training programs. Computer-assisted instruction (CAI), instructional television (ITV), and programmed instruction (PI) can be counted as early examples wherein technology has been applied to education. The most recent and perhaps most visible cases in point are Web-based training programs and degree-granting programs from fully accredited institutions offered via what is known as "distance learning." Unlike its predecessor, the correspondence course, distance learning offers far more than a text and a workbook. When technology succeeds, it becomes commonplace. This is amply illustrated by such mundane and ubiquitous artifacts as chalkboards, training films and videos, overhead projectors and transparencies, software such as Microsoft's PowerPoint, and—lest we forget—that most common of all artifacts, the textbook. Technology, it would seem, confronts us, seduces us, and then surrounds us.
| Publisher | AT&T | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | September 2003 | Downloads | 101 |
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