New Tools for Creating Instruction and Simulations

This paper describes three new tools for the design and development of computer-based training (CBT) in aviation. These tools, rather than making an incremental contribution to training quality, promise to alter our conceptions of the product and to change the nature of the products we are willing to build and use. These tools-simulation shell authoring, object-oriented authoring, and knowledge-based authoring-will modify all three factors of the time-cost-quality equation and bring down barriers that have prevented the development of larger numbers of more highly interactive and flexible instructional forms.