- Title
- A strategy for promoting computer literacy in staff and students of a teacher training institution : a case study
- Creator
- Keep, Joan Diane
- Subject
- Computer literacy Computer-assisted instruction Teachers -- Training of -- Data processing
- Date Issued
- 1992
- Date
- 1992
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MEd
- Identifier
- vital:1773
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003658
- Description
- A case study carried out at Edgewood College of Education (Natal) attempted to demonstrate how in-house training could provide staff with the necessary computer literacy skills to integrate computer technology into lecturing and teaching programmes. The duration of the project was six months and during this time a group of thirty academic staff members were exposed to computer technology via practical experience, lectures and demonstrations. The results gleaned from the project show that most of the staff involved in the project developed sufficient computer skills to be of benefit in their professional and personal tasks. In addition the recognition of the value of word processing and desk top publishing led to the staff encouraging students to use these software packages in the preparation of coursework. Consequently the use of the computer resources increased noticeably in the six month period. One of the goals of the study was to show how staff, once computer literate, would make use of generic software to integrate computer technology into their lecturing programmes. This did not happen and the reasons for this failure are discussed.
- Format
- 109 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education, Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Keep, Joan Diane
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