The overarching theme, "Technology and Communications: the Catalyst for Educational Change" is supported by ten sub-themes. The notes on the sub-themes below are all intended to suggest rather than restrict topics for consideration. Proposals can include, but are not limited to: case studies, theoretical analysis, visions of the future, activist platforms, hands-on activities or any combination of these.
 | re-writing of policies to accommodate new learning methods |
| re-skilling the administrators and teachers |
| financial planning for technological provision |
| central services and links, local and international |
| influence on the existing curriculum: enabling a new curriculum |
| the changing look of the classroom |
| pupil entitlement |
| accommodating different learning/teaching paradigms |
| software, hardware and services |
| the student/machine interface |
| what is out there? What needs to be? |
| interfacing technology with assessment strategies |
| Internet services in distance and open learning (e-mail, conferences, gopher, WWW, listservers, FTP, Telnet etc.) |
| uses at different stages of education |
| community use |
| computer mediated communication and databases as a tool for learning |
| communication and database access as resources for teachers' work |
| implications for school development (electronic publishing, virtual libraries, easy access to knowledge, Geographical Information Systems, new presentation techniques) |
| commercial implications, budget strategies, information as commercial goods, public/private enterprises |
| standards for provision |
| training and supporting the trainers |
| strategies to integrate technology across teacher education |
| remote communities of practice |
| strategies for in-service training and teacher support |
| access to the mainstream curriculum |
| technology as a leveller of the playing field |
| technological developments for special applications |
| proven success/failure through the use of new information technologies |
| areas for future enquiry |
