Automation and Education in the 1950s

Technology and the Instructional Design Process..., Jim Finn writes: 

• ''The good old days are gone; approached with intelligence and zest, the days of the future will be better."The cost of civilization is the fact that we can make wrong choices because of the alternative technology presents. The reward of civilization is the freedom provided by technology and the opportunity to make the right choices."

Hoban, C.F. , Hoban, C.F. Jnr & Zisman, S.B. (1930s) suggested that "if the abstraction is to possess a richness of meaningful content, the concrete must precede the abstract in breadth, depth, and variety towards progressive stages of abstraction", in a context where audio-visual is integrated in teaching.


How far have we come with the application of multimedia in a) instructional design, and b) automated and education?

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