A Review of ICT Related Courses in Pre-service Teacher Education Programs
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In the early days of educational computing, dating roughly from the launch of Sputnik in 1957 to the advent of personal computers, teacher education programs addressed professional development needs for technology through inservice training programs. In 1983, when the report, A Nation at Risk, recommended that students be required to take a high school computer course, it was still unusual for a
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