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The Advisory Group on Computer Graphics
by Richard Millwood published Mar 06, 2009 last modified Apr 05, 2011 11:02 PM
The Advisory Group on Computer Graphics (AGOCG) was an initiative of the Joint Information System Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils and the Research Councils from 1988 to 1998. It provided a single national focus for computer graphics, visualization, multimedia and virtual environments within the UK higher education community and was concerned with the handling and processing visual information in all its forms.
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The National Health Service University
by Richard Millwood published Mar 19, 2009 last modified Apr 05, 2011 11:02 PM
The National Health Service University (NHSU) was set up in 2001 in response to the Government‚'s commitment to establish a university especially dedicated to health and social care and survived until 31 July 2005.
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The Domesday Project
by Richard Millwood published May 14, 2009 last modified Apr 15, 2011 03:16 PM
From 1984 to 1986 the Domesday Project, organised by the BBC, gathered film, photographs, descriptions and data to cover the United Kingdom, publishing it all on an innovative variant of laser disc technology, LV-ROM in November 1986 in celebration of the 900th anniversary of the Norman Domesday Book.
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The Domesday Project
by Richard Millwood published Jul 13, 2009 last modified Apr 05, 2011 11:02 PM
From 1984 to 1986 the Domesday Project, organised by the BBC, gathered film, photographs, descriptions and data to cover the United Kingdom, publishing it all on an innovative variant of laser disc technology, LV-ROM in November 1986 in celebration of the 900th anniversary of the Norman Domesday Book.
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BBC Computer Literacy Project
by Richard Millwood published Jul 20, 2009 last modified May 24, 2012 12:53 PM
The BBC Computer Literacy Project was conceived of in 1979 by the BBC's Continuing Education Television Department and led to a launch in January 1982 of a television series based on the BBC Microcomputer commissioned from and designed by computer company Acorn.
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CEDAR
by Richard Millwood published Jun 07, 2011
Computers in Education As a Resource - CEDAR was established in 1979 at the end of the National Development Programme in Computer Assisted Learning (Hooper, 1977) and operated an international information centre on computer assisted learning and training. It built up an extensive collection of books and reports which were transferred to the College library when the project came to an end in 1984.
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BBC Continuing Education Unit
by Richard Millwood last modified Jul 25, 2015 11:03 AM
Responsible for adult literacy programmes in the seventies, this group initiated the BBC Computer Literacy Project in 1979, which resulted in the creation of televisons programmes, courses, books and the BBC Microcomputer.
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Information Technology in Teacher Education
by Richard Millwood published Aug 02, 2013 last modified Feb 10, 2026 05:30 PM
ITTE was set up in 1986 and while having a general brief to ‘promote the education and professional development of teachers and....to improve the quality of teaching and learning with ICT', it has had a niche role in supporting the initial teacher training lecturers of universities and colleges of education. ITTE members have networked with comparable international organisations, most directly with SITE, the IT in education arm of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) in the USA.
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Industry
by Richard Millwood published Apr 16, 2008 last modified Apr 05, 2011 10:41 PM
This section represents the growth and character of the educational computing industry, which has been a unique feature of the UK scene since the early eighties.
Industry
by Richard Millwood published Apr 16, 2008 last modified Jul 27, 2015 11:02 AM
This section is intended to represent the growth and character of the educational computing industry, which has been a unique feature of the UK scene since the early eighties.