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Looking for the “Right” Answers or Raising the “Right” Questions? A Dialogical Approach to Automating Instructional Design

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Automating Instructional Design: Computer-Based Development and Delivery Tools

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This chapter presents some of the components that underlie the topic of this book. I have concentrated my attention on issues such as ideology and science in the planning of education; the ontological status of instructional design; the implications of automation in educational activities; and schools and teachers’ views on instructional design. In the final section, following the main line of argument developed in the chapter, I propose a few interrogations as an invitation to ask more questions and to propose appropriate research.

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Gil, J.M.S. (1995). Looking for the “Right” Answers or Raising the “Right” Questions? A Dialogical Approach to Automating Instructional Design. In: Tennyson, R.D., Barron, A.E. (eds) Automating Instructional Design: Computer-Based Development and Delivery Tools. NATO ASI Series, vol 140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57821-2_4

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