# Programmed Instruction
**Domain:** Education / Behaviorism / Cybernetics
**Doc Type:** Instructional Model Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[B. F. Skinner]], [[Teaching Machines]], [[Soviet Cybernetics]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]
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## Definition
Instruction organized into sequenced units with frequent responses and feedback, delivered through teachers, texts or machines.
## Kybernetiks Context
American versions grew from [[Behaviorism]] and reinforcement; Soviet and German versions increasingly reframed the learner as a regulated information process.
## Backlinks
[[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]