CASE-STUDY - TECHNOLOGY AND TEACHER-EDUCATION - A STUDY OF THE REMOTEAREA TEACHER-EDUCATION PROGRAM

In this paper we present information on the Remote Area Teacher Educat ion Programme (RATEP) project undertaken in Aboriginal and Torres Stra it Islander Communities in Far North Queensland, Australia. The possib ilities for information technology in the delivery of an on-site teach er-education programme in remote communities are described. We argue t hat the RATEP project demonstrates the potential of IT as an instrumen t for teaching and learning. To develop our argument we focus on three issues: interactive learning systems, pedagogy and the features of IT and RATEP pedagogy. We conclude that students have quickly become 'te chnologically literate' and have appeared to benefit from the opportun ities to exercise some autonomy over sequence, rate and mode of access to information.