A Federal Perspective concerning the Use of Computers in Vocational Training

This paper discusses some of the problems that are faced by educators and systems developers as they attempt to develop and implement, on a broad scale, effective technological systems for the instruction, administration and management of education. To date millions of dollars have been expanded in developing instructional administrative and management systems for education. Yet with a few prominent exceptions there has been little broad scale impact on public elementary and secondary education. Because of this fact interest in and support for new research on the application of computers to educational problems has nearly dried up at the Office of Education, the National Institute of Education and the National Science Foundation. Work is needed to find out why this lack of broad-scale impact and what needs to be done to improve the situation.