ABSTRACT
This chapter shows what kind of initial and in-service training is being done to take account of new information technology in schools. A good deal can be said about plans for training related to microcomputers and associated devices. An important element in in-service (and possibly initial) training of teachers in using microcomputers in British schools will be the Open University’s courses, prepared under contract to the Programme. Bates reports that Michael Streibel at Pennsylvania State University has produced an interactive videodisc for the State Department of Education, to familiarise teachers with microcomputers and interactive videodiscs while at the same time providing them with a ‘viewing catalogue’ of broadcasts to schools by the television network of the Allegheny Educational Broadcast Council. The Open University offers a short self-study ‘course’, to train teachers in the use of calculators by students in the primary school.
