This book is based on the workshop that started the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology. It covers all the major themes in the area ranging from theoretical work to empirical studies of technological innovations.

Inhalt
1 Instructional Systems Need Instructional Theory: Comments on a Truism.- 2 Toward a Design Science of Education.- 3 A Workbench for Discovering Task Specific Theories of Learning.- 4 Computers in Teaching and Learning: An Interpretation of Current Practices and Suggestions for Future Directions.- 5 New Directions for Educational Technology.- 6 Formative Experiments on the Coevolution of Technology and the Educational Environment.- 7 Towards Intelligent Tutoring Systems that Teach Knowledge Rather than Skills: Five Research Questions.- 8 The Present and Future of Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- 9 Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Navigating the Rocky Road to Success.- 10 Designing Hypertext for Learning.- 11 A Prototype Futuristic Technology for Distance Education.- 12 Tools for Scientific Thinking: Learning Physical Concepts with Real-Time Laboratory Measurement Tools.- 13 Constructing Student Knowledge in Science.- 14 Technology for All Pupils: An English School System Context.- 15 Research in Advanced Educational Technology: Two Methods.- 16 Towards More Versatile Tutors for Programming.- 17 Problem Solving and Explanation in Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Issues for Future Research.- 18 Mental Models and Understanding: A Problem for Science Education.- 19 A Microworld-Based Approach to Science Education.- Biographies.