%0 Journal Article %T The Personalized System of Instruction: Review and Applications to Distance Education %A Lyle Grant %A Robert E. Spencer %J International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning %D 2003 %I Athabasca University Press %X The present paper a) outlines the basic features of the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI); b) provides a brief history of PSI; and c) describes the application of PSI to distance education. Some common misconceptions about PSI are also addressed. PSI is presented as a helpful universally applicable set of instructional practices that are well suited to distance teaching and learning. %K Personalized System of Instruction %K distance learning %K computer-based instruction %K mastery-learning %K self-pacing %K higher-order objectives %K scholarship of teaching %K proctors %K tutoring %U http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/152/233