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Toward Integration: Education, Instructional Technology, and Semiotics

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It has been asserted that the boundaries of instructional technology are unclear; so, too, this author claims, are the strategies that might make them clear. He believes the boundaries can be defined when the superstructure of which the boundaries are a part is identified. In this article he advances a theoretical perspective for analyzing education and instructional technology.

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    Michael F. Cassidy (instructional technologist at Bell Laboratories)

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The manuscript was completed while he was assistant professor, Center for Library and Audiovisual Education, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN 56301.

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Cassidy, M.F. Toward Integration: Education, Instructional Technology, and Semiotics. ECTJ 30, 75–89 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02767424

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