Human-computer interaction and CAI: A review and research prospectus

In recent years educators have become increasingly enthusiastic about the application of microcomputers in education. The potential of the 'cheap' computer appears to be greater than previous technologies. Teachers who have never touched a computer are enrolling in courses so that they become 'computer literate'. While the new technology can place a computer into each school or classroom for a reasonable cost, the problems of application and use of the technology, have not changed markedly from the time of early computer based education experiments in the middle 1960s.