Watters, Audrey,
Teaching machines : History of personalized learning / Teaching machines: The history of personalized learning Audrey Watters. - x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
B. F. Skinner builds a teaching machine -- Sidney Pressey and the automatic teacher -- "Mechanical education wanted" -- The commercialization of B. F. Skinner's first machines -- B. F. Skinner tries again -- Programmed instruction: in theory and practice -- Imagining the mechanization of teachers' work -- Hollins College and "The Roanoke Experiment" -- Teaching Machines, Inc. -- B. F. Skinner's disillusionment -- Programmed instruction and the practice of freedom -- Against B. F. Skinner.
"Teaching Machines traces the development of education technology from roughly the 1920s through the end of the 1990s, shaping our ideas of standardization and individualism"--
9780262546065 (paperback)
2020024477
Skinner, B. F. 1904-1990
Educational technology--History--20th century.
Programmed instruction--History--20th century.
Web-based instruction--History--20th century.
LB1028.3 / .W383 2021
371.33
Teaching machines : History of personalized learning / Teaching machines: The history of personalized learning Audrey Watters. - x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
B. F. Skinner builds a teaching machine -- Sidney Pressey and the automatic teacher -- "Mechanical education wanted" -- The commercialization of B. F. Skinner's first machines -- B. F. Skinner tries again -- Programmed instruction: in theory and practice -- Imagining the mechanization of teachers' work -- Hollins College and "The Roanoke Experiment" -- Teaching Machines, Inc. -- B. F. Skinner's disillusionment -- Programmed instruction and the practice of freedom -- Against B. F. Skinner.
"Teaching Machines traces the development of education technology from roughly the 1920s through the end of the 1990s, shaping our ideas of standardization and individualism"--
9780262546065 (paperback)
2020024477
Skinner, B. F. 1904-1990
Educational technology--History--20th century.
Programmed instruction--History--20th century.
Web-based instruction--History--20th century.
LB1028.3 / .W383 2021
371.33