Making the Most of PSI with Computer Technology

Publisher Summary This chapter describes Computer-Aided Personalized System of Instruction (CAPSI), an approach to higher education that grew out of this line of reasoning. The most dramatic change computer technology has brought to college and university teaching has been in the use of e-mail. Direct applications of computer technology in higher education have largely been devoted to an attempt to import standard classroom activities into a web environment. However, these applications do little to address problems that exist in many standard classroom activities. A course taught by CAPSI starts out in design like a traditional Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) course. A text covering the course material is chosen, the course material is broken down into study units, and study questions are written that define what the student is expected to have learned as a result of reading the text. Although the computer itself as one component of the system may not be able to provide adequate feedback, it can locate the requisite knowledge and understanding within the system as a whole. Less abstractly, the computer knows each student's level of mastery in the course at any given instant.

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