Practical Issues for Newcomers to Computer-Based Education

Summary

After reviewing some applications and reports of evaluation of computer-based education (CBE) in higher education, this paper provides a discission of environmental, instructional, and managerial issues in development, implementation and maintenance of computer-based education processes and materials. A short list of guidelines for development is also provided.

Key Words:

• Computer-based education
• computer-assisted instruction
• education
• training
• computer literacy
• authoring languages
• tutorials
• study pides
• staff development
• staff orientation
• instruction