Future of Computerisation in Institutions of Higher Learning

The higher education across the world is going through major changes as a result of computer applications in education and use of computer as an educational and research tool. This edited volume brings together papers presented by the scholars of India and Canada on Computer in the Indian universities at the Surat seminar in 1987. The major concerns of the indo-Canadian team have been brought out in the book by the participants of the seminar who have outlined the areas of the frontline researches. It focuses on the priorities for the use of computers in higher education for teaching, research, administration, interactive communications and networking. The book highlights the likely impact of not using computers in the universities and also impact of computer education in societies. This excellent collection of papers brings together techno social and pedagogic implications of computers in the university and society as a whole.