Investigations on Teaching with Microcomputers as an Aid

by Richard Millwood — published Jul 25, 2015 11:35 AM, last modified Jul 25, 2015 11:31 AM

A collaboration between groups who take a research based approach to exploring the potential of microcomputers in education based principally at two institutions, The College of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth and The Shell Centre for Mathematical Education, Nottingham University.

ITMA was founded in 1978 by Rosemary Fraser, building on some earlier work with microcomputers in schools. It grew to encompass people from a diverse range of backgrounds including teaching, teacher training, curriculum development, educational research, psychology, computer science, mathematics, physics, humanities, languages, music, engineering and publishing.

It benefited from funding from the Microelectronics Education Programme and published innovative software through Longman Group.

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The archive is directed and maintained by Richard Millwood of Core Education UK supported by Sandra Crapper, Maureen Gurr, Margaret Cox, Nick Rushby and Joy Hooper. The British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) were archive sponsors in 2008 and Becta were sponsors in 2009. Much of the archive was gathered in the years 1990 - 2006 by Prof Stephen Heppell with Richard Millwood and stored at Ultralab at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford. In its early days it was catalogued by Greta Mladenova and in 2006 Rex Wingate helped to organise the items in store. More recently, since 2011, Doreen Wright, Nick Rushby, Chris Monk and Joy Hooper have been helping catalogue the materials and develop policies.

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