Training Aids & Media

There are many forms of aids and media used in training. Some, such as chalk boards, flip charts, overhead transparencies and viewgraphs, have been in use for many years to augment classroom, lecture style training. Using computers as a media with which to aid instruction began in the 1960s with Plato (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations). Plato was the precursor for today's computer use in education and training and the platform for much early research in computer-based learning.

As computer technology has evolved, yielding more power at reduced cost, it has increasingly been applied in training and education.

Plato system in use in the Chemistry Learning Center (CLC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1972