Cai: The Next Twenty-Two Years^*

* Originally presented at CIPS Session 78, Edmonton, in May 1978.

Abstract

The paper predicts trends in Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) to the year 2000 by a review of past and present systems and systeixis coming into use within the next few years. Current hardware configurations are reviewed in terms of host machines and terminals, the software operating systems, the course authoring languages, the course materials (courseware) available, the strategies for producing matepals, the implementation and dissemination strategies, and the areas of application. Reduction in cost of memory and processor components will allow an expansion of CAI from formal educational setting to business training and to continuing education in the home.

Résumé

Ce papier prédit les tendances dans I’Instructioin aidée d’ordinateur (CAI) jusqu’à l’an 2000 au moyen d’une revue des systèmes du passé, du présent et de ceux qui naîtront dans les années prochaines. Les structures d’équipement sont discutées en fonction des “machines hôtes” et des terminaux, des systèmes d’opération du software, des langues d’écriture des cours, du matériel de cours disponibles; des stratégies pour la production du matériel; des stratégies pour la réalisation et la dissémination et des domaines d’application. Une réducition dans les coûts de mémoire et de procédure permettrait d’étendre la CAI au delà des environnements éducationnels et formels jusqu’au domaine d’entraînement commercial et au domajne d’éducation continue à la maison.

Notes

* Originally presented at CIPS Session 78, Edmonton, in May 1978.

Additional information

Notes on contributors

W.P. Olivier

BILL OLIVIER is an Associate Professor and founding Chairman of the Department of Measurement, Evaluation and Computer Applications at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). He holds a BA in Psychology and Mathematics, ah MA in Experimental Psychology, and a PH D in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining OiSE he worked as a research director in the Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAi) Laboratory at the University of Texas. At OISE he Js co-director of the Individualization Program which has produced one of the largest, self-supporting, multi-processor CAI networks in the world. The CAN/CAI language and systems, as well as the original courseware were designed by iOlivier. He is currently a member of many professional organizations and th;e National Research Council Associate Committee on Instructional Technology. His current interests include instructional design, research in learner-controlled CAi, design of CAI programming languages and authoring systems, design of multi-media CAI environments, and dedicated mini/micro computer CAJi systems.

G.F. Scott

GRAHAM SCOTT is a faculty member of the Department of Measurement, Evaliuation and Computer Applications of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. For the past 7 years he has been the Project Director of a program to develop computer-assisted instruction technologies for community colleges. [He has served as Assistant Coordinator of Research and Devjelopment Studies at OISE and has been a project leader in the Education Data Processing Branch of the Ministry of Education. He taught high school mathematics for the Toronto Board of Education, and in 1970 he was elected to the Toronto Board of Education as Trustee for Ward 7 and became Vice Chairman that year.