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Learning Management in a Historical Perspective.
Alex Romiszowski.
(Educational Technology 47/6, November-December 2007, pp60-61)
Project PLAN – was it an early form of LMS?
The year was 1967. As a young researcher, working in the UK in the newly emerging field of Educational Technology, I arranged a 3-month study tour of centers of R&D in North America. It was a busy schedule: a couple of days at professor Skinner’s labs in Boston, reviewing the latest research on programmed instruction; a visit to OISE in Toronto where some of the earliest R+D on CAI was underway; a stay at a Job Core Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, where the whole program ran on contingency-management principles; a visit to New Mexico to see how some Zuni Indian villagers were studying by means of a system of learner-directed, on-demand-video (what’s new in ed. tech?).