European Seminar on ICT in Teacher EducationStord, Norway, 2 - 8 August, 1999

Integrating ICTinto

Teacher Education•Historic background•Present actvities•Examples

Pre-historic activities

IT in education actually started in the 1980’ies, with he introduction of PCs

Main frame computers were only sporadically used for educational purposes (military, universities etc.)

Some minor activities occurred in the 70’ies, like programming (BASIC), accounting, statistics etc.

Magnetic tapes, punched cards etc.

’Old Times’, 1980’ies

Computer courses for teachers– Programming; BASIC, Pascal, LOGO– Stand-alone educational software

» drill-and-practice

» games

– Standard software» wordprocessors, spreadsheets, databases

– E-mail, bulletin boards Development of educational software

Medieval Times, 1990-95

National and international collaboration – projects, R & D, political attention

Software packages– MS Office, simulations, . . . .

Communication systems– e-mail, conferences, (’Gopher’, WWW)

Educational Information Science (M.Ed.)

Modern Times, 1996 -2000

Compulsory I(C)T in teacher education– different levels, national curricula

Internet & WWW– so what?– development of resources /applications

ODL and cross-disciplinary integration New paradigm?

– institutional strategy / policies– politically accepted and enforced

Examples of present activities

Compulsory ICT for all students

Special interest courses

Integration into subjects /disciplines

Open and distributed study programmes