Explores the historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives of using broadcast media to teach by examining a century of efforts to use it. Includes stories from teachers, administrators, entrepreneurs, and innovators who promoted the use of cutting-edge technology—while critically evaluating their motives.
2016
Johns Hopkins University Press
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A look at past attempts to automate instruction and covers a 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.
2014
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Building on a long tradition of print-based information visualization, interactive visualization utilizes the technological capabilities of computers, the Internet, and computer graphics to marshal multifaceted information in the service of making a point visually.
2012
MIT Press
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