This is a website for the iCS conference that was held from Oct. 27 to Oct. 30, 1999. If you have interest in the topics addressed in this conference, please stay tuned for our iCS Symposium Issue, which will be based on this conference.

An International iCS Conference on

New Media in Higher Education and Learning
Organized by
The Annenberg School for Communication
University of Southern California, USA
and
The Community Informatics Research and Applications Unit
University of Teesside, UK

for Information, Communication and Society (iCS)

to be held at

The Annenberg School for Communication
and The Getty Center
Los Angeles, California
27-30 October 1999

New Media in Higher Education and Learning

New conceptions of a 'virtual university', competitions for the most 'wired university', and a resurgence of interest in 'distance education' reflect some of the many calls for change in higher education and learning. They are being heard around the world and manifested in experiments and strategic plans of private industry, educational institutions, and national administrations.

Advocates for change have raised fundamental questions about the adequacy of traditional approaches to higher education and learning. Advances in information and communication technologies, like the Next Generation Internet and Web, could enable fundamental transformations in education, that parallel developments in the restructuring of business processes, commerce, and government. These new media could have even more profound implications for the reinvention of educational institutions, given the centrality of knowledge creation, acquisition, and dissemination to conceptions of the information age -- the 'knowledge society' -- and to the learning process.

Sponsors

The Annenberg School for Communication at USC
The Community Informatics Research and Applications Unit (CIRA)
University of Teesside, UK
The Getty Center
Routledge