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From: treese@athena.mit.edu (Win Treese)
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Subject: Re: Educational Software
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Date: 9 Sep 88 05:33:56 GMT
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In article <684@novavax.UUCP> maddoxt@novavax.UUCP (Thomas Maddox) writes:
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>	Questions:  does anyone know of advanced (i.e., college-level)
>educational software that works well in the areas of (1) general
>humanities, (2) writing (expository, creative, whatever), (3)
>literature.  I would be extremely interested in anything that shows
>any promise at all in these areas (the wastelands of educational
>software in my experience).  

There is some interesting work going on in education software at MIT's
Project Athena.  In the humanities areas, there are projects in writing
and foreign languages among others.

Some of the aspects of the Writing Project included use of an "electronic
classroom" to revise text "on-the-fly" with all the students in a class
participating as well as the construction of tools to aid in writing.
One of the essays in the book 'Text, ConText, and HyperText' (MIT Press)
discusses this project.

The foreign language projects are built around a multi-media workstation
which uses video, audio, and graphics to help the student learn the language.

I'm not completely up-to-date on these and other projects (humanities and
otherwise) that use Project Athena.  If you're interested in more information,
send me mail and I'll send you back a contact at Athena.

	Win Treese
	Cambridge Research Lab/MIT Project Athena
	Digital Equipment Corp.
	treese@athena.mit.edu