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Computers in Education: An Overview. Publication Number One. Software Engineering/Education Cooperative Project.

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Collis, Betty; Muir, Walter – 1984

The first of four major sections in this report presents an overview of the background and evolution of computer applications to learning and teaching. It begins with the early attempts toward "automated teaching" of the 1920s, and the "teaching machines" of B. F. Skinner of the 1940s through the 1960s. It then traces the…

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education

Reflections on Inequities in Computer Education: Do the Rich Get Richer?

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Collis, Betty – Education and Computing, 1985

Discusses worldwide inequities in computer education based on gender, socioeconomic level, country of residence, and specific school policies, and their resultant consequences. Concerns about these inequities are formulated and recommendations for reducing the scale of the problem are made. (Author/MBR)

Descriptors: Access to Education, Computer Literacy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations