1989 Volume 13 Issue 2_3 Pages 109-116
This paper outlines in-service training on the educational use of computers in Australia and New Zealand. Both countries have three kinds of in-service teacher training courses related to instruction on the educational uses of computers. These are : 1. graduate diploma courses offered by post-secondary institutions, 2. short term courses run by national or state governments, and 3. local workshops given at the school or school district level for experienced teachers. Of these, the third receives the main emphasis because both countries have widely-scattered populations. National and local governments have developed a wide variety of materials and provided resources for making these local workshops more effective. The current trend in the area of education and computing, again in both countries, is to use computers as study tools for a variety of subject areas. This is reflected in the contents and objectives of the various in-service training courses. Most of the courses also emphasize knowledge and skills for making the most of software application programs in the teachers' routine, daily work. While most of the secondary schools offer courses in computer literacy, few in-service training programs focus on conventional programming skills.
