Comments on: Computer Based Education https://blog.red7.com/computer-based-education/ Communicating in a networked world Fri, 22 Sep 2017 18:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: sky https://blog.red7.com/computer-based-education/#comment-28253 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 18:03:16 +0000 https://blog.red7.com/?p=4715#comment-28253 In reply to Joe.

So I think you’re addressing this to Michael Allen. He was instrumental in many things that took place in those years, including the founding of ADCIS (association for the development of computer-based instructional systems) in the 1970s. A big PLATO-IV promoter and AuthorWare was a very interesting, though under-utilized, product. Memories are always appreciate by all of us.

]]> By: Joe https://blog.red7.com/computer-based-education/#comment-28252 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 12:29:47 +0000 https://blog.red7.com/?p=4715#comment-28252 Hello Michael, JoeP here…
I’ll always remember and cherish that moment in 1989 when you pulled me aside, while standing outside the South Executive Seminar Room, to share with me (confidentially) that you would be leaving CDC within a year to start a new company you would call Authorware. Because you were always my favorite CDC executive client, I truly hoped I could join you in some capacity one day. However, just remaining personally connected as friends has been a joy for me to experience. It is you, and my time supporting Al Eisele and William Norris, that always had a positive impact on my overall career path, not to mention the opportunity Bob Price later afforded me to personally interview and videotape Don Bitzer in his classroom in NC. That, too, was a priceless experience for me.
So, although I was never able to make any type contributions to the world of CBT, I certainly had a front-row seat in witnessing it’s evolution.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Joe Palmitessa

]]> By: Doug Marlowe https://blog.red7.com/computer-based-education/#comment-28238 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:47:59 +0000 https://blog.red7.com/?p=4715#comment-28238 Hi Michael, My dad, Hy Marlowe, who was a packaging inventor (Avery label pop up box), created a “teaching machine” in a box in the 1950s. It consisted of a roll of paper wound on two spools. at each end of the spool were black plastic knurled wheels. The assembly was slid into the box which had a window for the lesson content. there was a flap which hid the answer to subsequent questions related to the content. The box was meant to look like a book and was intended to be placed on a bookshelf. As a kid, my job was to assemble these as fast as I could (child slave labor). That was my first interaction with learning that was innovative and way different than what I got in the classroom. I remember the PLATO and thought, here is Dad’s Teaching Machine in a real machine.

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