Watters, Audrey,

Teaching machines / Audrey Watters. - x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

B. F. Skinner builds a teaching machine -- Sidney Pressey and the automatic teacher -- "Mechanical education wanted" -- The commercialization of B. F. Skinner's first machines -- B. F. Skinner tries again -- Programmed instruction: in theory and practice -- Imagining the mechanization of teachers' work -- Hollins College and "The Roanoke Experiment" -- Teaching Machines, Inc. -- B. F. Skinner's disillusionment -- Programmed instruction and the practice of freedom -- Against B. F. Skinner.

"Teaching Machines traces the development of education technology from roughly the 1920s through the end of the 1990s, shaping our ideas of standardization and individualism"--

9780262045698

2020024477


Skinner, B. F. 1904-1990


Educational technology--History--20th century.
Programmed instruction--History--20th century.
Web-based instruction--History--20th century.

LB1028.3 / .W383 2021

371.33 WAT