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Can We Really Halve Development Time? Reaction to Scandura’s Commentary
Wellesley R. Foshay and Frank Preese

We need to approach with caution Scandura’s claim that half of the authoring tasks described for PLATO can be eliminated by use of AuthorIT. In our analysis, the benefit to productivity is likely to be closer to 10%, rather than the 29% that Scandura claims.

Keywords: CBT, authoring systems, CAI, automated development

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