Programmed Learning: Prologue to Instruction

Abstract

The paper indicates some pertinent issues in the field of programmed instruction (PI) and suggests promising directions for future growth of PI, both as a medium for the application of principles of learning and as a means of furthering our understanding of learning processes. Practical and theoretical implications are touched upon and combined to give a position statement on PI as a pedagogical and psychological research tool. In this vein the utility and inevitability of computer-aided instruction are discussed.