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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Heslep, Robert D. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2012
The computer engineers who refer to the education of computers do not have a definite idea of education and do not bother to justify the fuzzy ones to which they allude. Hence, they logically cannot specify the features a computer must have in order to be educable. This paper puts forth a non-standard, but not arbitrary, concept of education that…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computers, Computer Software, Human Factors Engineering
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Heslep, Robert D. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2009
This paper argues that an educated being logically does not have to be a human. Philosophers analyzing the concept of education have reached a consensual notion of the matter; but in applying that idea, they have barely discussed whether or not human beings are the only entities that may be educated. Using their notion as the core of a heuristic…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Multiple Intelligences, Beliefs, Educational Theories
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Heslep, Robert D. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 1973
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Education, Educational Objectives