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Special Education Computing: Current Courses and Future Directions1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Jeff Bailey
Jeff Bailey*
Affiliation:
University of Southern Queensland
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Abstract

While there is a great deal of activity in the area of educational computing in Australia, little is known of the courses being taught to teachers to equip them to deal with this technology in classrooms. This report summarises a survey of teacher education faculties in Australian universities, the aim of which was to determine the amount and content of special education computing courses being offered to teachers.

Type
Research Article
Information
Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , 1994 , pp. 47 - 52
Copyright
Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1994

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Footnotes

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Associate Professor Jeff Bailey is Director of the Office of Research at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, 4350.

Note: The assistance of Diana du Plessis in the collection of information for this study is acknowledged with gratitude.

1

Revision of a paper presented at the 16th National Conference of the Australian Association for Special Education, Perth, 1992.

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