programmed instruction
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‘Programmed instruction’ was one of the early names for it.”
From Slate
Juvenile Offenders Some critics, loyal Skinnerians among them, argue that this teaching process bores all but the dullest students, and that there is little solid evidence as to how well programmed instruction sticks.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was after a visit to his daughter's fourth-grade arithmetic class that he invented the first device for programmed instruction in 1954.
From Time Magazine Archive
It runs a mail-order education empire, including the Famous Writers, Artists and Photographers schools, that sells about $90 million yearly in programmed instruction to would-be Hemingways, Picassos and Carder-Bressons around the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Service schools have pioneered in everything from training films to programmed instruction.
From Time Magazine Archive
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