How and why do student teachers use ICT?...information and communication technology
This paper examines how and why student teachers made use of information and communication technology (ICT) during a 1-year initial teacher education programme from 2008 to 2009. This is a mixed methods study involving a survey ( N = 340) of the entire cohort and a series of semi-structured intervie...
| Published in: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 191 - 204 |
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| Format: | questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2011
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