June 1997 — Features

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The Future of Computers and Learning

Alfred Bork is a 20-year+ member of T.H.E.ís Editorial Board. Currently, Bork is Professor Emeritus of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. He has also been at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, the University of Alaska, Reed College and Harvard University. He directs the Educational Technology Center at UC Irvine, a research and development group in technology-based learning. He is Vice President of A. Bork Endeavors. Recent projects include production systems for technology-based learning, problems of learning about the methods of science, improving reasoning capability, voice input to computers, and learning Japanese. The Scientific Reasoning Series and Understanding Spoken Japanese are commercially available. Bork is interested in effective use of highly interactive multimedia technology to make order-of-magnitude improvements in learning at all levels. He has published dozens of papers and books about these issues.

E-mail: bork@uci.edu

References:

  1. Cohen, J'el E., How Many People Can the Earth Support?, New York, NY: Norton, 1995.
  2. Bork, Alfred, Bertrand Ibrahim, Bernard Levrat, Alastair Milne and Rika Yoshii, "The Irvine-Geneva Course Development System," Education and Society, R. Atkin (Ed.), Information Processing 92, Volume II, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1992, IFIP.
  3.  Leonard, George B., Education and Ecstacy, New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1968.
  4.  Leonard, George, "The Great School Reform Hoax," Esquire, April 1984.
  5. Bork, Alfred, "Highly Interactive Multimedia Technology and Future Learning," Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 8(1), Fall 1996.
  6. Bork, Alfred, "Distance Learning and Interaction: Toward a Virtual Learning Institution," Journal of Science Education and Technology, 5(3), 1995.
  7. Bork, Alfred, "Highly Interactive Software for Learning," not published, available from author.

Bork, Alfred, "Rebuilding Universitites with Highly Interactive Multimedia Curriculum," International Journal of Engineering Education, in press.

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