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Computers and Education – Recognising Opportunities and Managing Challenges

IFIP TC3 – Technical Committee on Education

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IFIP’s Technical Committee 3 (TC3) is dedicated to concerns about uses of computing and digital technologies in education. TC3 covers the interests of those who are concerned with policy, practice and research in the fields of digital technologies and computing used for educational purposes, whether for management, teaching or learning, and whether by teachers, learners, parents, policy makers, developers, or the wider adult population involved in lifelong learning. This chapter considers the shifting focus of IFIP TC3’s concerns for computing and education over the past 60 years, the reasons for those shifts, and the challenges that educators have faced in developing appropriate uses of computers in their practices. The chapter explores the roles and influences of TC3 conferences, its academic journal, its working groups, and its current task force. Separate sections provide an overview of important TC3 visions and declarations that have highlighted contemporary and future issues, and the status of an evolving declaration focusing on future sustainability and computing. The chapter concludes with an overview of the impact of TC3, and signposts next steps in its ongoing journey.

All present and past members of IFIP TC3 and its WGs are recognised in the work presented in this chapter. Specific contributions to this text were provided by the authors listed.

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  1. Chair of TC3, National Representative of the UK, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YD, UK

    Don Passey

  2. Chair of TC3 WG3.1, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Torsten Brinda

  3. Past chair of TC3, University of Grenoble, CNED, Poitiers, France

    Bernard Cornu

  4. Chair of TC3 WG3.4, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland

    Jaana Holvikivi

  5. Chair of TC3 WG3.3, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

    Cathy Lewin

  6. National Representative of Germany, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

    Johannes Magenheim

  7. National Representative of Switzerland, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Raymond Morel

  8. Chair of TC3 WG3.7, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

    Javier Osorio

  9. Editor-in-chief of EAIT, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Arthur Tatnall

  10. Past chair of TC3 WG3.4, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK

    Barrie Thompson

  11. Chair of the TC3 Task Force on the Computing Curriculum, King’s College, London, UK

    Mary Webb

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Passey, D. et al. (2021). Computers and Education – Recognising Opportunities and Managing Challenges. In: Goedicke, M., Neuhold, E., Rannenberg, K. (eds) Advancing Research in Information and Communication Technology. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology(), vol 600. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81701-5_5

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