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* Van Meer, Betty (2003). “PLATO: From Computer-Based Education to Corporate Social Responsibility,” Iterations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Software History 2. 1-22. [http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/vanmeer.html HTML] | * Van Meer, Betty (2003). “PLATO: From Computer-Based Education to Corporate Social Responsibility,” Iterations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Software History 2. 1-22. [http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/vanmeer.html HTML] | ||
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Revision as of 21:29, 7 November 2007
Definition
- PLATO', an accronym for Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations was an early Computer-based training system.
- First a single user system in 1960, it became multi-user in the mid-sixties. DSchneider believes that PLATO was the first e-learning platform. Principles behind coursware were not too different from modern-day content-based main-stream e-learning. The only difference is that early PLATO systems did not incorporate the typical CMC components a modern Learning management system has. But already by the mid-70' PLATO featured on-line talk and messaging.
PLATO is still alive in various incarnations ! See the Wikipedia:PLATO article for details.
References
- Van Meer, Betty (2003). “PLATO: From Computer-Based Education to Corporate Social Responsibility,” Iterations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Software History 2. 1-22. HTML