In all cases below, the emphasis is on using technology to achieve educational consequences that might otherwise have been largely beyond our reach, while at the same time attempting to remain within realistic cost constraints. Computer assisted administration of student records eg spreadsheets for enrolment lists and for assessment records Computer managed learning systems may allow both the teacher and the individual student to keep track of the students' progress.
Computers are infinitely patient.
They permit as much repetition as a student desires. In our context, at the level of the non-computer specialist, this could be thought of as the original application for computers, following on from the widespread use of calculators. Thus, adding up, sorting figures, bookkeeping, running statistical calculations, etc etc are all tasks eminently suited to the desktop computer. Explicitly model experts' reasoning Expert systems are an obvious example here. Expert systems have been applied in a wide variety of situations with mixed success.