From PLATO Global Education Network to the Mash Up Global University Gцran Karlsson School of Engineering Sciences KTH-Mechanics [e-mail]

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From PLATO Global Education Network to the Mash
Up Global University Göran KarlssonSchool of
Engineering SciencesKTH-Mechanicskarlsson_at_mech.k
th.se
Activity 2.3 Training of trainers
Jan. 25, 2010
Stockholm, Sweden
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KTH Teachers Professional and ICT Competencies

• 1958 University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign.
  Chalmers Sherwin, a physicist at the University
  of Illinois, suggested a computerized learning
  system to the engineering college dean.
• After weeks of meetings they were unable
  to suggest a single-design system.
• The laboratory assistant Donald Bitzer
  (later professor), suggested he could build a
  demonstration system.

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KTH Teachers Professional and ICT Competencies

• Bitzer, regarded as the Father of PLATO, rejected
  modern educational thinking, and returned to a
  basic drill-based educational system.
• 1960 The first system, PLATO I, operated on the
  local ILLIAC I computer. It included a television
  set for display and a special keyboard for
  navigating the system's function menus.
• 1961 PLATO II, featured two users at once.
• PLATO Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching
  Operations.

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KTH Teachers Professional and ICT Competencies

• 1967 PLATO III allowed "anyone" to design new
  lesson modules using their TUTOR programming
  language.
• Could simultaneously run up to 20 lessons, and
  was used by a local facilities in
  Urbana-Champaing that could enter the system
  with their custom terminals.
• NSF funding.
• Main frame computer donation from Control Data
  (CDC 1604).

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KTH Teachers Professional and ICT Competencies

• 1972 PLATO IV. Bitzers invention the touchable
  plasma screen.
• Fast vector line drawing capability and ran at
  1260 baud, rendering 60 lines or 180 characters
  per second. Both character and vector plotting.
  Users could provide their own characters to
  support rudimentary bitmap graphics.
• 16-by-16 grid infrared touch panel allowing
  students to answer questions by touching
  anywhere on the screen

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KTH Teachers Professional and ICT Competencies

• 1975 CDC Cyber 73. 150 locations in the US.
• 1979 Stig Björklund starts the PLATO group at
  KTH.

1979 PLATO V. Microprocessor development.
Intelligent terminals. 1980 Micro-PLATO.
Viking terminals. Death to PLATO and CD. CDs own
fault.
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KTH Teachers Professional and ICT Competencies

• PLATO had an advanced worldwide communication
  system (PLATO notes) long before ARPANET and
  Internet. Advanced editors (developed at KTH).
  Graphic editor (developed at KTH). Graphich
  communication (developed) at KTH.
• Extensively used in South Africa (University of
  Western Cape).Used at KTH but never generically
  understood, nor accepted.
• Used worldwide. Emails already in the beginning
  of the 80s.

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KTH Teachers Professional and ICT Competencies

• In parallel
• XEROX Park visited Univ. Of Illinois 1972.
• Took back the ideas about graphical screens to
  Palo Alto.
• Started to develop a graphically based computer
  operating system.
• Handled over the idea to Apple Computer, where
  Steve Jobs started 1978 to develop Lisa, which
  was much more advanced than the first Macintosh
  OS.

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KTH Teachers Professional and ICT Competencies

• Education Authoring systems, Concurrent
  authoring systems, ideas about grapichal
  concurrent authoring via icons (as then Lisa,
  Macintosh, Windows).
• EU support COMETT, UETPs.
• 1982 Steve Jobs was pushed out of the Lisa
  project and started to develop Macintosh.
• 1984 Apple Computer launches Macintosh.
• 1985. Microsoft adds Windows 1.0 to MS-DOS.

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KTH Teachers Professional and ICT Competencies

• And now!
• LMS, LCMS etc.
• Adobe Connect Pro
• Google Google
• Sweden

Activity 2.3 Training of trainers
Jan. 25, 2010
Stockholm, Sweden