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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Do Rural and Regional Students in Queensland Experience an ICT "Turn-Off" in the Early High School Years?
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Courtney, Lyn; Anderson, Neil – Australian Educational Computing, 2010
Students learning in regional, rural and remote locations in Queensland are currently experiencing a "turn-off" in relation to school-based ICT in the first three years of high school. At the same time, students are experiencing increasing levels of interest and motivation from their use of ICT at home. Given the importance of ICT as an enabling…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Rural Education, Student Attitudes, Computer Attitudes
Secondary Girls' Perceptions of Advanced ICT Subjects: Are They Boring and Irrelevant?
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Timms, Carolyn; Courtney, Lyn; Anderson, Neil – Australian Educational Computing, 2006
This paper reports on two questions from a survey of year 11 and 12 girls' perceptions of the two advanced computing subjects available within Education Queensland (EQ). The two subjects are Information Processing Technology (IPT) and Information Technology Systems (ITS). Similar to trends in other western countries, the Queensland experience…
Descriptors: Females, Computers, Information Technology, Student Attitudes