Teaching Machines

Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology

Bill Ferster (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2015
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4214-1540-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Sage on the Stage
3. Step by Step
4. Byte by Byte
5. From the Cloud
6. Making Sense of Teaching Machines
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.1.2015
Reihe/Serie	Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology
Zusatzinfo	12 Illustrations, black and white; 31 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4214-1540-2 / 1421415402
ISBN-13	978-1-4214-1540-6 / 9781421415406
Zustand	Neuware