Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology - Couverture rigide

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Ferster, Bill

 
9781421415406: Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology
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ISBN 10 : 1421415402 ISBN 13 : 9781421415406
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Technology promises to make learning better, cheaper, faster--but rarely has it kept that promise.

The allure of educational technology is easy to understand. Classroom instruction is an expensive and time-consuming process fraught with contradictory theories and frustratingly uneven results. Educators, inspired by machines' contributions to modern life, have been using technology to facilitate teaching for centuries.

In Teaching Machines, Bill Ferster examines past attempts to automate instruction from the earliest use of the postal service for distance education to the current maelstrom surrounding Massive Open Online Courses. He tells the stories of the entrepreneurs and visionaries who, beginning in the colonial era, developed and promoted various instructional technologies. Ferster touches on a wide range of attempts to enhance the classroom experience with machines, from hornbooks, the Chautauqua movement, and correspondence courses to B. F. Skinner's teaching machine, intelligent tutoring systems, and eLearning.

The famed progressive teachers, researchers, and administrators that the book highlights often overcame substantial hurdles to implement their ideas, but not all of them succeeded in improving the quality of education. Teaching Machines provides invaluable new insight into our current debate over the efficacy of educational technology.

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À propos de l?auteur

Bill Ferster is a research professor at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the director of visualization for the Sciences, Humanities & Arts Technology Initiative (SHANTI). He is the author of Interactive Visualization: Insight through Inquiry.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1421415402
ISBN 13 
9781421415406
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
216
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