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PLATO, PLATO - Background, PLATO - Innovation, PLATO - NSF involvement, PLATO - Other versions, PLATO - PLATO in South Africa, PLATO - PLATO's birth, PLATO - Testing, PLATO - The CDC years, PLATO - The PLATO Online Community
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ARTICLES RELATED TO PLATO - Testing | | | |  PLATO - Testing: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - TestingTesting software developed on PLATO was deployed as the first large-scale computer-based testing system, and turned out to be the most financially viable component of the system. The NASD, private-sector regulator of the UI securities markets, began using PLATO for securities license testing in the 1980s. Use of the testing products grew steadily during that decade, and they were spun off from Control Data Corporation as Drake Training and Technologies in 1989. With the advent of IT certifications programs sponsored by, among others, Novell ...
See also:PLATO, PLATO - Background, PLATO - PLATO's birth, PLATO - NSF involvement, PLATO - The CDC years, PLATO - PLATO in South Africa, PLATO - The PLATO Online Community, PLATO - Testing, PLATO - Other versions, PLATO - Innovation Read more here: » PLATO: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - Testing |
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| | | | PLATO - Testing: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - The CDC years As PLATO IV reached production quality, William Norris became increasingly interested in it as a potential product. His interest was two-fold. From a strict business perspective, he was evolving Control Data into a service-based company instead of a hardware one, and was increasingly convinced that computer-based education would become a major market in the future. At the same time, Norris was upset by the unrest of the late 1960s, and felt that much of it was due to social inequalities that needed to be addressed. PLATO offered a solution by providing higher education to segments of the population that would otherw ...
See also:PLATO, PLATO - Background, PLATO - PLATO's birth, PLATO - NSF involvement, PLATO - The CDC years, PLATO - PLATO in South Africa, PLATO - The PLATO Online Community, PLATO - Testing, PLATO - Other versions, PLATO - Innovation Read more here: » PLATO: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - The CDC years |
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| | | | PLATO - Testing: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - PLATO's birth Chalmers Sherwin, a physicist at the University of Illinois, suggested a computerized learning system to William Everett, Dean of the College of Engineering. Everett recommended that Daniel Alpert, another physicist, convene a meeting on the topic that included engineers, educators, mathematicians, and psychologists. After several weeks of meetings the group was unable to suggest a single design for such a system. Alpert was unhappy with the results, but before announcing their failure he mentioned the meetings to a lab assistant, Donald Bitzer. Bitzer claimed that he had already been thinking about the problem, and suggested that ...
See also:PLATO, PLATO - Background, PLATO - PLATO's birth, PLATO - NSF involvement, PLATO - The CDC years, PLATO - PLATO in South Africa, PLATO - The PLATO Online Community, PLATO - Testing, PLATO - Other versions, PLATO - Innovation Read more here: » PLATO: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - PLATO's birth |
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| | | | PLATO - Testing: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - Other versions CDC eventually sold the "PLATO" trademark and some courseware marketing segment rights to the newly-formed The Roach Organization in 1989. In 2000 TRO changed their name to PLATO Learning and continue to sell and service PLATO courseware running on PC's. CDC continued development of the basic system under the name CYBIS (CYber-Based Instructional System) after selling the name to Roach, in order to service their commercial and government customers. The University of Illinois also continued development of PLATO, eventually setting up a ...
See also:PLATO, PLATO - Background, PLATO - PLATO's birth, PLATO - NSF involvement, PLATO - The CDC years, PLATO - PLATO in South Africa, PLATO - The PLATO Online Community, PLATO - Testing, PLATO - Other versions, PLATO - Innovation Read more here: » PLATO: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - Other versions |
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| | | | PLATO - Testing: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - The PLATO Online Community Although PLATO was designed for computer-based education, many consider its most enduring legacy to be the online community spawned by its communication features. PLATO Notes, introduced in 1973, was among the world's first online message boards, and years later became the direct progenitor of Lotus Notes. By 1976, PLATO had sprouted a variety of novel tools for online communication, including Personal Notes (email), Talkomatic (chat rooms), and Term ...
See also:PLATO, PLATO - Background, PLATO - PLATO's birth, PLATO - NSF involvement, PLATO - The CDC years, PLATO - PLATO in South Africa, PLATO - The PLATO Online Community, PLATO - Testing, PLATO - Other versions, PLATO - Innovation Read more here: » PLATO: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - The PLATO Online Community |
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| | | | PLATO - Testing: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - PLATO in South Africa During the period when CDC was marketing PLATO, the system began to be used internationally. South Africa was one of the biggest users of PLATO in the early 1980s. ESCOM, the South African electrical power company, had a large CDC mainframe at Megawatt Park in the northwest suburbs of Johannesburg. Mainly this computer was used for management and data processing tasks related to power generation and distribution, but it also ran the PLATO software. The largest PLATO installation in South Africa during the early 1980s was at the University of ...
See also:PLATO, PLATO - Background, PLATO - PLATO's birth, PLATO - NSF involvement, PLATO - The CDC years, PLATO - PLATO in South Africa, PLATO - The PLATO Online Community, PLATO - Testing, PLATO - Other versions, PLATO - Innovation Read more here: » PLATO: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - PLATO in South Africa |
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| | | | PLATO - Testing: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - Background Prior to the 1960s, university education was limited to a tiny minority of the population. But the future trend to much larger enrollment in higher education was already clear in the early 1950s, and the problem of providing for an influx of new students was a serious concern. A number of people proposed that if the computer could increase the capabilities of the factory via automation, then surely ...
See also:PLATO, PLATO - Background, PLATO - PLATO's birth, PLATO - NSF involvement, PLATO - The CDC years, PLATO - PLATO in South Africa, PLATO - The PLATO Online Community, PLATO - Testing, PLATO - Other versions, PLATO - Innovation Read more here: » PLATO: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - Background |
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| | | | PLATO - Testing: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - NSF involvement PLATO I, II and III had been funded by small grants from a combined Army-Navy-Air Force funding pool, but by the time PLATO III was in operation everyone involved was convinced it was worthwhile to scale up the project. Accordingly, in 1967 the National Science Foundation granted the team steady funding, allowing Bitzer to set up the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory (CERL) at the university.
In 1972 a new system named PLATO IV was ready for operation. The PLATO IV terminal was a major innovation. It included ...
See also:PLATO, PLATO - Background, PLATO - PLATO's birth, PLATO - NSF involvement, PLATO - The CDC years, PLATO - PLATO in South Africa, PLATO - The PLATO Online Community, PLATO - Testing, PLATO - Other versions, PLATO - Innovation Read more here: » PLATO: Encyclopedia II - PLATO - NSF involvement |
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