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Technocamps: Highlighting 20 Years of Transforming Digital Education in Wales

Tom Crick Orcid Logo, Faron Moller Orcid Logo

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2

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DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3587103.3594195

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Computer science (CS) curriculum reform across the UK has been subject to substantial scrutiny, as it has in many other countries around the world. However, in Wales - one of the four nations in the UK - various political, geographical and socio-cultural issues have historically hindered major educa...

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Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 2023
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3587103.3594195
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