Harvey Long
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About Harvey Long
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Quoting from America Tomorrow:
- Dr. Harvey Long, independent consultant, and Corporate Fellow of America Tomorrow retired in 1992 from IBM after more than 35 years of experience with the corporation and its technology in education/training-related business ventures. In the intervening years he served as Technology Consultant to the American Federation of Teachers.His IBM activities ranged from that of Manager of Instructional Systems to Education Industry Consultant. He pioneered in corporate programmed instruction and free-standing teaching machine development and was responsible for the research, development and early implementation of IBM's internal computer-assisted training system, the first such system in corporate America. This system reflected his pioneering involvement in national education networks, an experience utilized in his later contributions to the National Education Association's School Renewal Network and the Mathematical Science Education Leadership Network. Dr. Long was also involved with the corporation's original work with laser videodiscs where he was responsible for national marketing programs and applications to education and training.
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Q. Drawing upon your years of experience in the field of education, what do you think are some of the very best ways to improve our current informal and formal educational systems?
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Harvey Long's Past & Current Insights
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Up Close and Personal
Comment by Dave Moursund. I remember Harvey best for his great sense of humor. He liked to joke about his video disk work with IBM. I think he figures IBM lost $100 million on this project. Harvey impressed me by the range of people he knew and worked with. It seemed like a list of "Who's Who" in the field of computers in education.
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