From the 1920s American psychologists experimented with teaching using machines. Inspired, in part, by the expansion of schooling, especially at the secondary level; the success of paper-and-pencil ...

But unlike many educators, Skinner has not stopped at theory. He has taken the first step in mechanizing the classroom by building a teaching machine. Ten years in the laboratory with pigeons ...

Harvard Psychologist B. Frederic Skinner, 56, is the leader in adapting animal conditioning techniques to teaching humans; most machine programing follows his basic research experiments on Harvard ...