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Real-time simulation in computer-assisted instruction

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Large scale computer-assisted instruction systems generally impose severe constraints upon the demands that individual users may make. Nevertheless, it is possible to overcome these problems and a program is described which teaches students how to fly a specific maneuver through real-time simulation of the flight of a student-controlled “airplane”. This is achieved in spite of the fact that the student is “flying” his “plane” through the use of a manually controlled analog input device. Both computational and educational implications are discussed.

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  1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

    Stanley Trollip & Andrew Ortony

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Contractual support for this work was provided in part by the Life Sciences Program Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Contract number F44620-70-C-0105. Dr. Charles Hutchinson was the scientific monitor of the contract.

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Trollip, S., Ortony, A. Real-time simulation in computer-assisted instruction. Instr Sci 6, 135–149 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00121083

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