The Association exists to promote high standards of education - particularly through the provision and development of academic, management and administrative information systems. It provides an effective discussion forum for those having strategic and operational responsibility for Information Systems within their institutions. Evidence is presented in detail in paragraphs 1 to 32, matching the questionnaire. However, the provision of advanced and affordable information technology is not in itself sufficient to create organisational change.
Organisational change is a social process requiring cultural change.
Using information systems to create new patterns of activity means changing how people work, their attitudes and perceptions. The development costs of sophisticated multimedia software are high. Commercial materials, quite possibly developed for an international market, will increasingly be used. To recoup the cost of production of home-grown materials, large markets will be developed by collaborative ventures. It will be necessary to create material sufficiently stable for reuse with successive student cohorts or incorporate easy methods to update the content.