The emerging technology [McGraw-HilI., New York, 1972, 585 pp.]
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CONTRIBUTORS:
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JOURNAL:
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Computing Reviews,
16(9),
372 -
374.
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YEAR:
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1975
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Book Review
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computing; education; instructional technology
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Computer Science
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English
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103-427-085
(Last edited on
2006/05/29 15:26:04 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
The three subject sections in this volume have been individually reviewed; each is cross-referenced to this main entry to provide complete source and citation data.
[See: 28,761; 28,762; 28,763].
This volume was sponsored principally by the Carnegie
Commission on Higher Education, with supplementary funding by the National Science Foundation, and the Rand Corporation. The Foreword is authored by Clark Kerr, Chairman of the Carnegie Commission, and wellknown raconteur. It is his view that this study "is one of the most comprehensive reports on computer-assisted instruction ever attempted." Regrettably, this book is not about computer-assisted instruction; it is about the use of
computers in higher education! It is about every kind of computer application found on and off a campus, which involves the institution!
It is not a particularly good book-and it is definitely not a "study" in the pure sense. To illustrate, the author states that "We shall seek recommendations for actions by decision-makers in government, industry, and the academic world that will help to achieve these objectives" (on page 435). He really does not mean that he will seek recommendations from these groups to help guide one another, but that he will create his own recommendations to furnish to these groups!
The recommendations constitute armchair cerebration, i.e., navel contemplation, by a few individuals, in the guise of a "study." Despite the fact that considerable space is devoted to courses in computing taught in higher education institutions, we cannot find a single course outline or a brief outline of topics or subject matter in even one such course! Instead, we find a photograph of an integrated circuit chip, and a thimbleful of logic components. Face the reality of this Carnegie Commission on Higher Education study and its recom,mendations: Federai, state and local governments, fund, fund, fund. . . fund! Institution, spend, spend, spend.., spend! Like many technical reports, it is with great sorrow we conclude the main recommendation is that more money be provided to continue the "study."
L. C. Silvern, Los Angeles. Calif. .~
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