William G. Camp, Associate ProfessorVirginia TechH. Dean Sutphin, Associate ProfessorCornell UniversityMicrocomputers are used in nearly every phase of agricultural business and industry. To properlyequip graduates to work in agriculture, teachers have begun to incorporate microcomputers andrelated technologies into the curriculum.Important microcomputer-related technologies availabletoday include telecommunications hardware, printers of all kinds, plotters, remote sensing and controldevises, optical scanners, video-disk equipment, many other hardware devices as well as the associatedsoftware to operate the systems (Camp, Moore, Foster, & Moore, 1988). Agriculture teachereducators and state supervisors continue to examine their roles in supporting the adoption of suchnew technologies in agricultural education.
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Camp et al. (1991) studied this question.