The document discusses the future of education and whether it will be more programmed or programmable. It references Edward Thorndike's 1912 idea that education could be managed through print if the content was only visible based on completing prior tasks. It also mentions programmed instruction, operant conditioning, the programmable web, having one's own domain, and templating the self. The key debate centered around whether education will be highly structured with programmed content delivery or give more control to the learner through programmable, customizable options.

1. The Future of Education:
Programmed or
Programmable
Audrey Watters
@audreywatters
Pepperdine University, November 4, 2014

2. Distance Education

3. Video Lectures

4. Content Delivery

5. Networks, Denied

6. Programmed Instruction
The Programmable Web

7. “If, by a miracle of mechanical ingenuity, a book could be so
arranged that only to him who had done what was directed on
page one would page two become visible, and so on, much that
now requires personal instruction could be managed by print.”
— Edward Thorndike (1912)

8. Operant Conditioning

9. The Programmable Web

10. A Domain of One’s Own

11. “The Templated Self”

12. And the future of education…?