Teaching machines - Watters, Audrey (Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press, 2021)
B. F. Skinner builds a teaching machine -- Sidney Pressey and the automatic teacher -- "Mechanical education wanted" -- The commercialization of B. F. Skinner's first machines -- B. F. Skinner tries again -- Programmed instruction: in theory and practice -- Imagining the mechanization of teachers' work -- Hollins College and "The Roanoke Experiment" -- Teaching Machines, Inc. -- B. F. Skinner's disillusionment -- Programmed instruction and the practice of freedom -- Against B. F. Skinner.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Skinner, B. F. -- 1904-1990.; Educational technology -- History -- 20th century; Programmed instruction -- History -- 20th century; Web-based instruction -- History -- 20th century; Electronic books