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Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology
Bill Ferster
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Description for Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology
Hardback. Teaching Machines provides invaluable new insight into our current debate over the efficacy of educational technology. Series: Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology. Num Pages: 216 pages, 43, 31 black & white halftones, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Series
Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421415406
SKU
V9781421415406
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Ref
99-26
About Bill Ferster
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.
Reviews for Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology
Provides valuable historical background, memorable stories, and a thoughtful tour of today's landscape. Those working towards an initial, but informed, opinion of the possibilities of educational technology will find the book helpful.
Mark Notess elearn Magazine Teaching Machines' readability and its appealing mix of theory and narrative, historical and contemporary developments make it a valuable choice as a course ... Read more
Mark Notess elearn Magazine Teaching Machines' readability and its appealing mix of theory and narrative, historical and contemporary developments make it a valuable choice as a course ... Read more