The Department has been established in 1998. Computers continue to make an ever increasing impact on all aspects of education, from primary school to university and in the growing areas of open and distance learning. In addition, the knowledge and skills related to computers have become essential for everybody in the Information Age. The Department aims to train the teachers who are going to teach computer courses in K-12 as well as to provide the individuals with professional skills in the development, organisation and application of resources for the solution of instructional problems within schools. Moreover, the students are required to do practice teaching is schools as a part of their training and assessment.
Assessment is by coursework and examinations.
Although the Department has been recently established and there are no graduates as yet, the graduates are expected to find jobs in all levels of primary and secondary schools to enhance new technologies and methodologies and teach courses related to computer literacy, programming and other computer courses in K-12. The Department is planing to open MSc and PhD programmes in the year 2000 to prepare individuals to conduct research and to equip them with the necessary skills for designing and developing instructional systems and materials.