Programmed Instruction and Computer Technology.

Abstract This article focuses on the role of programmed instruction in managerial accounting course. The rate of experimentation and introduction of new techniques in the field of education has not been very spectacular. With programmed instruction in particular, most of the potential remains to be exploited. In school the students are not required to take more than one accounting course. In order, therefore, to cram more material in a one-semester course without arousing the wrath of the students, one has to find ways of reorganizing the material and presenting it in a more efficient way. The students feel that they somehow do not understand the purpose of education and especially the purpose of the required curriculum that teachers force upon them. Our educational system rests on the notion of integrated programs of study. The people who design curricula attempt to look at the total requirements toward a goal (the degree) and then proceed toward the description of specifications which will enable the student to reach it.