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Tiêu đề

Computer-assisted instruction in the liberal arts using a simple authoring system

Tác giả

Decker R.; Hirshfield S.; Paris D.; Strout N.

Năm xuất bản

1989

Source title

Journal of Computing in Higher Education

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1007/BF02942604

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84951654223&doi=10.1007%2fBF02942604&partnerID=40&md5=d32d59d398dbaae87fca0ddc2ed9cfc7

Tóm tắt

THIS PAPER describes DISCUSS, a combination of two computer programs currently under development at Hamilton College. DISCUSS is designed to help improve students’ reading skills and their preparation for class discussion. One part of the system, named Author, provides instructors with both graphical and textual interfaces for designing and developing automated, interactive lessons. The lessons focus students’ attention on important questions about assigned readings and require students to write responses to those questions. In essence, the lessons enable an instructor to have students carry on dialogues with texts through the computer as a means to prepare them for dialogues in the classroom — student to student, student to teacher, class to text. The Author program also gives an instructor a number of tools for monitoring students’ progress through sessions and for communicating with individual students and classes as a whole. The Student part of DISCUSS presents lessons to students, solicits student responses (with Macwrite-like editing features), and saves the responses for printing. Unlike conventional CAI systems, DISCUSS supports a variety of open-ended, discursive question types and allows for anonymous interaction among students. The system, which runs on an Appletalk/Appleshare network of Macintosh-Plus computers with a dedicated file server, was originally proposed by instructors from the Departments of English and Government and is now being used in courses in those departments. The course and a recent workshop on the system suggest that it can be readily adapted by faculty in a variety of disciplines for a variety of pedagogical purposes. © 1989, Springer. All rights reserved.

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