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Programmed instruction

Here are entered general discussions on, and/or texts for, a step-by-step teaching method, often using a teaching machine, that employs small units of information or learning material and frequent testing and allows students to control the pacing of the learning process.

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• Educational technology
• Learning, Psychology of
• Teaching -- Aids and devices

• Computer-assisted instruction
• Teaching machines
• Civil procedure -- United States -- Programmed instruction
• English language -- Programmed instruction
• Mathematics -- Programmed instruction
• Physics -- Programmed instruction

• Programed instruction
• Programmed learning
• Programmed textbooks

• The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition; Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), ed. by Terry Anderson (HTML and PDF with commentary at aupress.ca)
• The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition, 2008), ed. by Terry Anderson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Teaching in the Switched-On Classroom: An Introduction to Electronic Education and HyperCourseware (c1997), by Kent L. Norman (HTML at UMD)
• The Future of Information Technology in Education (1997), by David G. Moursund (HTML at Oregon)
• Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (New York: Basic Books, c1980), by Seymour Papert (PDF with commentary at MIT)
• Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy (New York: Institute for Distributed Creativity, c2011), ed. by Trebor Scholz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Beyond Fun: Serious Games and Media (c2008), ed. by Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Effective Information and Communication Technology (revised edition, c2006), by Nigel Zanker (PDF in the UK)

• The Switched-On Classroom: A Technology Planning Guide for Public Schools in Massachusetts, by Massachusetts Software Council (HTML at archive.org)

• Research in Learning Technology: The Journal of the Association for Learning Technology (including volumes originally published as the Association for Learning Technology Journal) (full serial archives)

• Hybrid Pedagogy: A Digital Journal of Learning, Teaching, and Technology (2012-) (full serial archives)

• Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (1996-) (full serial archives)

• Education and Technology: Future Visions (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Power On! New Tools for Teaching and Learning (OTA-SET-379; 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Lessons Learned from FIPSE Projects III (1996), by United States Department of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessons Learned from FIPSE Projects II (1993), by United States Department of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Engines for Education, by Roger C. Schank and Chip Cleary (hypertext at engines4ed.org)
• Fostering the Use of Educational Technology: Elements of a National Strategy, by Thomas Keith Glennan and Arthur Melmed (HTML at rand.org)

• Constructivist Blended Learning Approach to Teaching English for Specific Purposes (c2012), by Oleg Tarnopolsky (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)
• Teaching Health Professionals Online: Frameworks and Strategies, by Sherri Melrose, Caroline Park, and Beth Perry (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning (second edition; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2018), ed. by Kathryn Kennedy and Richard E. Ferdig (PDF at CMU)
• Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2014), ed. by Richard E. Ferdig and Kathryn Kennedy (PDF at CMU)

• At a Tipping Point: Education, Learning and Libraries (Dublin, OH: OCLC, c2014), contrib. by Cathy De Rosa, Joanne Cantrell, Margaret Gallagher, Janet Hawk, Irene Hoffman, Renée Page, Lorraine J. Haricombe, and Deb Wallace (PDF at oclc.org)
• Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), by Lucy Montgomery, John Hartley, Cameron Neylon, Malcolm Gillies, Eve Horwitz Gray, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Chun-Kai Huang, Joan Leach, Jason Potts, Xiang Ren, Katherine Skinner, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, and Katie Wilson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Battle for Open: How Openness Won and Why It Doesn't Feel Like Victory (London: Ubiquity Press, 2014), by Martin Weller (multiple formats at ubiquitypress.com)

• Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge (2008), ed. by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Open: The Philosophy and Practices That are Revolutionizing Education and Science (London: Ubiquity Press, 2017), ed. by Rajiv Jhangiani and Robert Biswas-Diener (multiple formats wth commentary at Ubiquity Press)
• New Technologies, New Pedagogies: Mobile Learning in Higher Education (2009), ed. by Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney, and Brian Ferry (PDF in Australia)

• Self-Directed Multimodal Learning in Higher Education (Cape Town: AOSIS Books, 2020), ed. by J. A. K. Olivier (PDF with commentary in South Africa)
• The Battle for Open: How Openness Won and Why It Doesn't Feel Like Victory (London: Ubiquity Press, 2014), by Martin Weller (multiple formats at ubiquitypress.com)
• New Technologies, New Pedagogies: Mobile Learning in Higher Education (2009), ed. by Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney, and Brian Ferry (PDF in Australia)
• Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Chris Rowell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry, by Norman D. Vaughan, Martha Cleveland-Innes, and D. R. Garrison (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Wiring the Writing Center (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1998), ed. by Eric Hobson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Preparing Teachers to Teach Writing Using Technology (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2013), ed. by Kristine E. Pytash, Richard E. Ferdig, and Timothy V. Rasinski (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Technological Ecologies and Sustainability (c2009), ed. by Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Heidi A. McKee, and Richard Selfe (PDF files with commentary at Computers and Composition Digital Press)

• Preparing Teachers to Teach Writing Using Technology (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2013), ed. by Kristine E. Pytash, Richard E. Ferdig, and Timothy V. Rasinski (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986), by Harold Abelson and Harold Abelson and Andrea diSessa (PDF files with commentary at at MIT Press)

• Teaching History in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013), by T. Mills Kelly (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), ed. by Kevin B. Kee (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (2005), by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (HTML with commentary at gmu.edu)

• Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (New York: Basic Books, c1980), by Seymour Papert (PDF with commentary at MIT)

• Teaching Health Professionals Online: Frameworks and Strategies, by Sherri Melrose, Caroline Park, and Beth Perry (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Computer Technology in Medical Education and Assessment (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Teaching Health Professionals Online: Frameworks and Strategies, by Sherri Melrose, Caroline Park, and Beth Perry (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Wiring the Writing Center (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1998), ed. by Eric Hobson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Accessible Elements: Teaching Science Online and at a Distance (c2010), ed. by Dietmar Karl Kennepohl and Lawton Shaw (PDF files with commentary at AU Press)

• A Decision Structure for Teaching Machines (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1962), by Richard D. Smallwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Distributed Interactive Simulation of Combat (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Computer-Aided Exercises on Civil Procedure (7th edition; Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, c2012), by Roger Park and Douglas D. McFarland (multiple formats with commentary at cali.org)

• Programmed Manual for Students of Fundamental Physics (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, 1962), by Jay Orear (page images at HathiTrust)

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