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The teaching machine in its most ideal form would also allow for freedom of responses to questions posed.

B. F. Skinner is often credited as the inventor of the “teaching machine.”

He believed that humans, too, would respond to such conditioning, and soon conceived of a ‘teaching machine’ that would allow students to learn through immediate feedback.

Miriam Mann, a tiny firebrand who had taught school in Georgia, had come to the city with her family when her husband, William, accepted a position as an instructor teaching machine shop at the US Naval Training School at Hampton Institute.

Skinner revived some of Pressey’s ideas in a device of his own, called the Teaching Machine.