The Computer-Aided Learning Program at the National Research Council of Canada

✍ Scribed by W.L. Haney; W.C. Brown; J. Brahan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1973
• Weight: 948 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7373
• DOI: 10.1016/s0020-7373(73)80018-5

✦ Synopsis

This paper, delivered at a Conference on "Transmission Technology for Education" sponsored by the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, in May 1972, deals with the activities of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in the field of computer-aided learning. The first portion deals with the reasons for undertaking the work. The second part describes the work itself, and the facilities available. A third part describes the means of co-ordination between educational users, the various educational authorities, and the laboratories. The final portion is a series of questions which arise out of the problems associated with the division of responsibilities in the Canadian context. Other questions are of a more general kind, as they relate to the utility of CAL and the direction which further technology ought to take.