How To Design Programmed Learning Materials. Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 12.

A sequel to the booklet "How to Produce Printed and Duplicated Materials," this booklet begins by providing an overview of programmed learning. This introduction shows how the field has developed since the work of B. F. Skinner in the 1950s and explains what is generally meant by the term "programmed learning" today. Guidelines for planning and writing textual programmed materials are then presented, which deal in turn with all the various stages in the process: (1) determining the objectives; (2) choosing the content; (3) chooslag a suitable programming model; (4) designing the program; and (5) writing the individual frames. Part of a typical programmed text is provided as an example, and a list of four annotated references recommended for further reading is included. (MES) ****************************************w****************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the hest that can be made from the original docv ent. ******************************************* ************************** This booklet was first published Internally In Robert Gordon's institute of Technology, Aberdeen as part of the Institute's staff development programme. It was written by Dr Henry Ellington of RGIT's Educational Technology Unit. CICED gratefully acknowledges the c: -operation of ROIT and the author in the publication of the present edition of the booklet.