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Courseware in the humanities: Expanded horizons

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This article presents an overview of educational computing for the non-specialist from the perspective of the classroom teacher as user of courseware rather than as programmer, developer, or researcher. It considers diverse terms associated with courseware and CAI and offers a working definition of courseware and a pragmatic task-related typology broad enough to accommodate many humanities domains. It further discusses sources for dedicated as well as “crossover” courseware products in the humanities, resources for information, and courseware interest in Computers and the Humanities as evidenced by articles, reviews, and special issues.

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  1. Spanish Department, Georgetown University, 20057, Washington, D. C., USA

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Estelle Irizarry is professor of Spanish at Georgetown University and author of twenty books on Hispanic literature. She is Courseware Editor of Computers and the Humanities and Editor of Hispania.

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Irizarry, E. Courseware in the humanities: Expanded horizons. Comput Hum 26, 275–284 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00054273

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