Describes the Microelectronics Education Programme (MEP), a plan developed to help British secondary school students learn about microcomputers and the role of technology in society, and its successor, the Microelectronics Support Unit (MESU). Highlights include curriculum development, teacher training, computer assisted instruction and the…

Advances in information/computer technology have produced the mental revolution which may cause radical social changes. The world faces the choice of using computers as a liberating technology to free teachers and students for other pursuits or allowing computers to function as pacifying institutions where students become passive participants in…

Three articles on the use of new technologies in education focus on (1) Digital Video Interactive (DVI) Technology and its value in designing and developing educational materials for children; (2) problem solving with computers by using functions; and (3) new information technology and educational change in Norway. (LRW)

Prepared for a 1984 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conference, this report analyzes trends and changes in elementary, secondary, higher, and distance education curricula and institutional structures on the basis of a number of case studies from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands,…

Three articles discuss teacher training and the use of microcomputers in elementry and secondary school curriculums. Highlights include microcomputers in British primary schools; the University of Chicago School Math Project; computer training for teachers in Iceland; learning and educational change; and introducing elementary school teachers to…