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Müggenburg, Jan – History of Education, 2021
This article analyses how Heinz von Foerster's Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) translated cybernetic concepts into an experimental pedagogy tailored to the interests of the youth of the American intellectual counterculture. The existing research literature assumes that the opening of BCL to the counterculture in the early 1970s was the result…
Descriptors: Cybernetics, Experimental Teaching, Artificial Intelligence, Research
Bembenutty, Hefer; Karabenick, Stuart A. – 1999
Academic delay of gratification (ADOG) refers to students' postponement of immediately available opportunities to satisfy impulses in favor of pursuing academic goals that are temporally remote but ostensibly more valuable. This important form of self-regulation was studied among college students to determine how it serves to sustain effort over…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Delay of Gratification, Educational Objectives