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Integrating computers into the university curriculum: the experience of the UK computers

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Gardner, Nigel
Abstract	Special initiatives in the field of computing and information technology in the United Kingdom have had a mixed history. Recent appraisals of the much-publicized Alvey programme, for example, cast real doubts on the extent to which any centrally directed initiative can effectively mediate change in a field developing as quickly as information technology1. Where computing and education coincide in a single special initiative, the experience appears particularly unhappy. NDPCAL and MEP have come and gone, leaving no enduring positive mark on our educational system2. Indeed, if a recent report in The Times is to be believed, four out of five teachers in the UK do not judge that the introduction of computers into schools has enhanced any aspects of teaching methodology3. And, to judge from the continuing stream of publications4 bemoaning the acute shortage of adequately trained personnel to fill IT-related positions in industry, commerce, government, and education, the widespread introduction of computers into schools, colleges and universities has yet to even start palliating the problem of a perceived mismatch between the products of our educational system and the needs of employers.On the face of it, therefore, the Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) appears to be attempting the impossible, or, at best, entering a domain where recent past experience is discouraging. But a longer view of history is replete with examples where technological innovation has been the lynchpin of successful educational and economic change. Sir John Hale's interpretation of intellectual revival in Renaissance Florence is an opposite example5.The Computers in Teaching Initiative was prompted by the Nelson Report, published in 1983, which identified the inadequate provision of student workstations in UK universities6. The report explored future scenarios, delineating the well-equipped campus of the early 1990's as having one workstation available for every five undergraduates. Although adventurous by British stations the aspirations for the next decade encompassed within the Nelson Report were very modest by comparison with the levels of workstation provision already being achieved by certain American universities7. Rapid developments in computer.
Starting Page	425
Ending Page	431
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0897912411
DOI	10.1145/41866.41942
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1987-12-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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