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Teaching machines : the history of personalized learning / Audrey Watters.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watters, Audrey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-1990.
- Skinner, B. F.
- Educational technology--History--20th century.
- Educational technology.
- Programmed instruction--History--20th century.
- Programmed instruction.
- Web-based instruction--History--20th century.
- Web-based instruction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1: B. F. Skinner Builds a Teaching Machine
- 2: Sidney Pressey and the Automatic Teacher
- 3: "Mechanical Education Wanted"
- 4: The Commercialization of B. F. Skinner's First Machines
- 5: B. F. Skinner Tries Again
- 6: Programmed Instruction: In Theory and Practice
- 7: Imagining the Mechanization of Teachers' Work
- 8: Hollins College and "the Roanoke Experiment"
- 9: Teaching Machines Inc.
- 10: B. F. Skinner's Disillusionment
- 11: Programmed Instruction and the Practice of Freedom
- 12: Against B. F. Skinner
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262363747
- 0262363747
- 9780262363754
- 0262363755
- OCLC:
- 1261364015
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