September 18, 1926 - Birth of Alfred Bork, a pioneer in the field of education technology. Bork specialized in interactive techniques for learning and the application of graphics and multi-media to learning. He created systems for interactive instruction and was influential in education policy. Bork maintained that technological approaches to teaching and learning would become inevitably more cost-effective than traditional practices. Bork was Professor Emeritus of Information and Computer Science and Physics at the University of California, Irvine. While at UC, Irvine, he founded and acted as director of the Educational Technology Center which focused on research and development of technology-based learning materials. Bork died on December 18, 2007.
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