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 ===== General ===== ===== General =====
  
-The Keller Plan (also called //The Personalized System of Instruction//​) is an instructional method introduced by [[http://​en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Fred_S._Keller|Fred Keller]], J. Gilmour Sherman, and other researchers in the 1960s.(([[http://​ei.cs.vt.edu/​~mm/​s96/​cs4984Format/​subsection3_2_1.html|Fox,​ Edward A. Keller Plan.]])) This individualized learning method was oriented on improvement of high school learning.+The Keller Plan (also called //The Personalized System of Instruction//​) is an instructional method introduced by [[http://​en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Fred_S._Keller|Fred Keller]], J. Gilmour Sherman, and several ​other researchers in the 1960s.(([[http://​ei.cs.vt.edu/​~mm/​s96/​cs4984Format/​subsection3_2_1.html|Fox,​ Edward A. Keller Plan.]])) This individualized learning method was oriented on improvement of high school learning.
  
 ===== What is the Keller plan? ===== ===== What is the Keller plan? =====
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 Keller'​s idea was to make higher education teaching more adjusted to individual needs. His method was first introduced in 1962 in order to help establishing a Department of Psychology at the University of Brasilia and design a course for the students. After additional modifications,​ the key aspects of his method can be described as follows:​(([[http://​www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/​pmc/​articles/​PMC1310979/​|Keller,​ Fred S. ‘Good-bye,​ teacher...’ Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 1, no. 1: 79-89. 1968.]])) Keller'​s idea was to make higher education teaching more adjusted to individual needs. His method was first introduced in 1962 in order to help establishing a Department of Psychology at the University of Brasilia and design a course for the students. After additional modifications,​ the key aspects of his method can be described as follows:​(([[http://​www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/​pmc/​articles/​PMC1310979/​|Keller,​ Fred S. ‘Good-bye,​ teacher...’ Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 1, no. 1: 79-89. 1968.]]))
  
-  * **Go-at-your-own-pace**. A student can move through the course content at his own pace. +  * **Go-at-your-own-pace**. A student can move through the course content at his own pace, independently of other students
-  * Strict ​definitions of **learning objectives**.+  * Detailed ​definitions of **learning objectives**.
   * **Unit-perfection requirement**. In order to advance to the next unit, a student needs to demonstrate mastery of the preceding unit.   * **Unit-perfection requirement**. In order to advance to the next unit, a student needs to demonstrate mastery of the preceding unit.
   * Emphasis on **written materials**. The emphasis is on learning from written materials. Lectures and demonstrations //will be provided only when you have demonstrated your readiness to appreciate them; no examination will be based upon them: and you need not attend them if you do not wish.//​(([[http://​www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/​pmc/​articles/​PMC1310979/​|Keller,​ Fred S. ‘Good-bye,​ teacher...’ Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 1, no. 1: 79-89. 1968.]]))   * Emphasis on **written materials**. The emphasis is on learning from written materials. Lectures and demonstrations //will be provided only when you have demonstrated your readiness to appreciate them; no examination will be based upon them: and you need not attend them if you do not wish.//​(([[http://​www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/​pmc/​articles/​PMC1310979/​|Keller,​ Fred S. ‘Good-bye,​ teacher...’ Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 1, no. 1: 79-89. 1968.]]))
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 ===== What is the practical meaning of the Keller plan? ===== ===== What is the practical meaning of the Keller plan? =====
  
-The practical meaning of Keller'​s model consists of implementing above measures in practice. An example of this is a [[chunks:​hand-out describing Keller'​s teaching methods]] applied to the first-semester course in General Psychology in 1967.+The practical meaning of Keller'​s model consists of implementing ​the above identified ​measures in practice. An example of this is a [[chunks:​hand-out describing Keller'​s teaching methods]] applied to the first-semester course in General Psychology in 1967.
  
  
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 ===== Keywords and most important names ===== ===== Keywords and most important names =====
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 +  * **The Keller Plan**, **Individualized System of Instruction**,​ **self-paced instruction**
 +  * [[http://​en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Fred_S._Keller|Fred Keller]], Gilmour Sherman
  
  
 ===== Bibliography ===== ===== Bibliography =====
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 +[[http://​www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/​pmc/​articles/​PMC1310979/​|Keller,​ Fred S. ‘Good-bye,​ teacher...’ Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 1, no. 1: 79-89. 1968.]]
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 +[[http://​ei.cs.vt.edu/​~mm/​s96/​cs4984Format/​subsection3_2_1.html|Fox,​ Edward A. Keller Plan.]] Retrieved July 7, 2011.
  
  
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 [[http://​www.eric.ed.gov/​ERICWebPortal/​detail?​accno=ED211099|Daly,​ D. W., and S. M. Robertson. Keller Plan in the Classroom, 1978.]] [[http://​www.eric.ed.gov/​ERICWebPortal/​detail?​accno=ED211099|Daly,​ D. W., and S. M. Robertson. Keller Plan in the Classroom, 1978.]]
  
 +[[http://​books.google.hr/​books?​id=6ppbAAAAMAAJ|Keller,​ Fred Simmons, and John Gilmour Sherman. PSI, the Keller plan handbook: essays on a personalized system of instruction. W. A. Benjamin, 1974.]]
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 +[[http://​onlinelibrary.wiley.com/​doi/​10.1111/​j.1467-8535.1993.tb00640.x/​abstract|Rae,​ Andrew. Self‐paced learning with video for undergraduates:​ a multimedia Keller Plan. British Journal of Educational Technology 24, no. 1: 43-51. January 1993.]]
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 +[[http://​books.google.hr/​books?​id=NR4zexzw8wIC|Burton,​ J. K., Moore, D. M., & Magliaro, S. G. Behaviorism and instructional technology. In D. H. Jonassen (Ed.), Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology (pp. 46-73). New York: Macmillan, 1996.]]
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