Computing in higher education: the Athena experience

  • Authors:
  • Edward Balkovich;Steven Lerman;Richard P. Parmelee

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Equipment Corp., Marlboro, MA;Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge;IBM Scientific Center, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Special issue: computing in the frontiers of science and engineering
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

Project Athena at MIT is an experiment to explore the potential uses of advanced computer technology in the university curriculum. About 60 different educational development projects, spanning virtually all of MIT's academic departments, are already in progress.