Papers by Jackline Nuguti
Research on educational technologies--ranging from motion pictures to computer-based tutoring sys... more Research on educational technologies--ranging from motion pictures to computer-based tutoring systems--documents a disapointing history in which strong claims for a new technology are followed by large-scale implementations which eventually fail Mayer, in press). For example, in 1922, the famous inventor Thomas Edison proclaimed that "the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant...the use of textbooks" (cited in Cuban, 1986, p. 9). Yet, in reviewing the role of motion pictures in schools over the decades since Edison's grand predictions, Cuban (1986, p. 17) concluded that "most teachers used films infrequently in classrooms." Similarly, fifty years later in the 1970s, the game-like computer-assisted instruction (CAI) programs that were tauted as the wave of the future in education eventually proved to be no more effective than teacherbased modes of instruction (Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt, 1996). Today, similarly strong claims are being made for the potential of multimedia learning environments.
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Papers by Jackline Nuguti