A tale of three cities: Review of the development of ICT in school education between Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore

New Horizons in Education

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 70-82

  Fan, Chun Wai ^a   Ho, Kwok Keung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

ICT Education; Integrating IT into Teaching and Learning; Johannessen Benchmarks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863670334     PISSN: 16831381     EISSN: 18183352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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