TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watters,Audrey
TI  - Teaching machines
SN  - 9780262045698
AV  - LB1028.3 .W383 2021
U1  - 371.33 WAT  23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Skinner, B. F.
KW  - Educational technology
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Programmed instruction
KW  - Web-based instruction
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -