Computer-Based Instruction (CBI): Toward a User-Oriented Technology Data Base

Abstract

A number of ongoing analyses and surveys are directed toward the development of a computerized data base on the capabilities and availability of CBI technologies in the Department of Defense. The process of providing such a data base goes far beyond the computerized storage of casually compiled data. This paper identifies and discusses two critical issues developed from a CBI research and development analysis in support of the CBI data base design. The first issue addresses the importance of specific attention to the characteristics and requirements of potential users both of CBI technology and of the data base. The second is concerned with the need for a well-conceived classification schema for description of the features of CBI systems in the form of data storage and retrieval cues. A preliminary schema is presented, and the impact of the two issues on the design and functioning of the data base is examined.

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