Title: | The Uses Of Plato: A Computer Controlled Teaching System |
Author(s): | Easley, J.A.; Lyman, Elisabeth R.; Bitzer, Donald Lester |
Subject(s): | Libraries --Automation |
Abstract: | The use of a high-speed digital computer as a central control
element provides great flexibility in an automatic teaching system.
Using a computer-based system like PLATO permits versatility in
teaching logics, since changing the type of teacher merely requires
changing the computer program but not the hardware. In addition,
having access to the decision-making capacity of a large computer
located as one unit permits complicated decisions to be made for
each student. Such capacity would be prohibitively expensive to provide
by means of decision-making equipment located at each student
station. Studies of queuing that occurs with multiple student requests
show that the system could teach as many as a thousand students
simultaneously without incurring a noticeable delay in processing any
student's request. The educational results thus far have been extremely encouraging.
However, reliable conclusions on educational achievement must
await the results of more thorough experiments now in progress which include larger numbers of students learning under a variety of conditions.
The adaptability and usability of the system for a variety of
purposes in education (including the behavioral and physical sciences)
have been clearly demonstrated. |
Issue Date: | 1966 |
Publisher: | Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
Citation Info: | In H. Goldhor (ed). 1966. Proceedings of the 1966 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. Urbana, Il: Graduate School of Library Science: 34-46. |
Series/Report: | Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (4th : 1966) |
Genre: | Conference Paper / Presentation |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1760 |
ISSN: | 0069-4789 |
Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
Rights Information: | Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1966. |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2007-07-27 |