Teaching machines : Audrey Watters. History of personalized learning /
Material type: TextMassachusetts : The MIT Press , ©2021Description: x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN: 9780262546065 (paperback)Other title: Teaching machines: The history of personalized learningSubject(s): Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-1990 | Educational technology -- History -- 20th century | Programmed instruction -- History -- 20th century | Web-based instruction -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 371.33 LOC classification: LB1028.3 | .W383 2021Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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"--
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