Report : Computer-Enhanced Education THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM OF COMPUTER-ENHANCE D EDUCATION AND SOME IDEAS ABOUT A SOLUTIO N Thomas A . Dwye r Project Solo, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 1526 0 Some time in the late 1940's, a small exploratory movement started t o take form, mostly in the workshops and homes of individual experimenters . A sprinkling of amateurs, working at times in local groups, at times inde pendently, began to assemble chunks of technology (much of it originall y developed for professional use in the motion picture "palaces" of the day ) into personal high fidelity sound systems . The results were, for thos e who had the opportunity to observe and listen, quite sensational . There was no need for formal evaluation ; what came out of these strange lookin g boxes and mysterious concoctions of electronics was clearly a new, an d tremendously exciting phenomenon . An underground of know-how soon spread , and within a short time even higher quality components became availabl e for a widening group of knowledgeable users . The names of some of thes e early pioneers eventually became synonymous with quality in the component s themselves
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