computer aided instruction , CAI (abbreviation)
computer-assisted instruction
computer-aided education
computer-aided teaching
computer-assisted teaching

Computer aided instruction gained widespread acceptance in schools by the early 1980s.

The use of computer aided instruction in primary schools has created a new generation of what have been called 'television children'.

Techniques used to teach this information have included scale models, printed silhouette charts, slide projectors, computer aided instruction and even specially-printed playing cards.

Many of the earlier forms of computer aided instructions used a central computer facility and a set of work-stations where a whole class of trainees could function simultaneously.

The project provides Computer Aided Instruction to high school students throughout Delaware utilizing instructional material served from a central DEC PDP-11/70.

Professor Mazur found that computer aided instruction allowed him to coach instead of lecture; he wrote "As a result, my teaching assistants and I can address several common misconceptions that would otherwise go undetected."

To a trainee at the interface this may not seem very different from a teaching machine or computer aided instruction but the logic or architecture of the driving system is different so that even more flexibility is available.

In particular, Steffin, who held degrees in experimental psychology and instructional technology, wanted to create computer aided instruction that encouraged divergent thinking, in contrast to current school curriculum, which he believed encouraged convergent thinking.

Along with the terms learning technology, instructional technology, the term educational technology refers to the use of technology in learning in a much broader sense than the computer-based training or Computer Aided Instruction of the 1980s.

In the early 1970s, the PLATO time-sharing system, created by the University of Illinois and Control Data Corporation allowed students at several locations to use online lessons in one of the earliest systems for computer aided instruction.

Computer aided instruction (C.A.I.) strictly should cover other techniques such as simulation and computer based procedures but it is usually intended to mean a situation where a student sits in front of a screen on which the presented formats relate to his developing cognitive activity as expressed by his manipulations of the associated key-board.

The latest innovations of the school are the integration of computer aided instruction with Internet access in all subject areas from first year to fourth year and the adoption of the Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) with Religion as the core subject being a Catholic and Dominican-Siena School.