Spreadsheets in Education: The First 25 Years

dc.creator	Baker, J.
dc.creator	Sugden, S.J.
dc.date	2003-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:05:10Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:05:10Z
dc.identifier	1448-6156
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/ff54ec73db4b4af0a6ac0bb9b1c47be2
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/9570
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/ff54ec73db4b4af0a6ac0bb9b1c47be2
dc.description	Spreadsheets made their first appearance for personal computers in 1979 in the form of VisiCalc, an application designed to help with accounting tasks. Since that time, the diversity of applications of the spreadsheet program is evidenced by its continual reappearance in scholarly journals. Nowhere is its application becoming more marked than in the field of education. From primary to tertiary levels, the spreadsheet is gradually increasing in its importance as a tool for teaching and learning. By way of an introduction to the new electronic journal Spreadsheets in Education, the editors have compiled this overview of the use of spreadsheets in education. The aim is to provide a comprehensive bibliography and springboard from which others may develop their own applications and reports on educational applications of spreadsheets. For despite its rising popularity, the spreadsheet has still a long way to go before becoming a universal tool for teaching and learning, and many opportunities for its application have yet to be explored. The basic paradigm of an array of rows-and-columns with automatic update and display of results has been extended with libraries of mathematical and statistical functions, versatile graphing and charting facilities, powerful add-ins such as Microsoft Excel's Solver, attractive and highly-functional graphical user interfaces, and the ability to write custom code in languages such as Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications. It is difficult to believe that Bricklin, the original creator of VisiCalc could have imagined the modern form of the now ubiquitous spreadsheet program. But the basic idea of the electronic spreadsheet has stood the test of time; indeed it is nowadays an indispensable item of software, not only in business and in the home, but also in academe. This paper briefly examines the history of the spreadsheet, then goes on to give a survey of major books, papers and conference presentations over the past 25 years, all in the area of educational applications of spreadsheets.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Faculty of Information Technology, Bond University, Australi
dc.relation	http://www.sie.bond.edu.au/articles/1.1/bakersugden.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1448-6156
dc.source	Spreadsheets in Education, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 18-43 (2003)
dc.subject	Spreadsheet
dc.subject	education
dc.subject	mathematics education
dc.subject	statistics education
dc.subject	survey
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Spreadsheets in Education: The First 25 Years
dc.type	Article