| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Description | The early work of LEAs, colleges and some organisations to support educational technology and computer education in schools.
Includes documents from local authorities, colleges and HMI notes about support from LEAs and college centres for computer education in schools; minutes of meetings and articles in professional journals about curriculum development in computer education and using computers in schools; ILEA's Educational Computing newsletter.
Folder 1: 1967-1981
College documents and papers from LEA working groups about supporting work in schools in computing. Also the proceedings of a DES-funded conference on the use of computers in colleges of education.
Folder 2: 1971-1979
HMI and non-LEA notes on the work of colleges, departments of education and LEAs in relation to school computing.
Folders 3 & 4: 1970-1983
The early work of LEA IT centres, mainly newsletters of the Hertfordshire Advisory Unit run by Dr Bill Tagg (which became the Chiltern Regional Centre for MEP from 1981) and of the ILEA's Educational Computing Centre, led by Derek Esterson and later Bryan Weaver (which also accommodates the Capital Regional Centre for MEP). Includes 'ILEA Educational Computing' Nos 21, 23, 25-35, 38-39. |