Australian Computer SocietyAustralian Computer SocietyIn March 1998 the Australian Computer Society released a Communique on IT higher education. Tom Worthington, who prepared the communique, will look at possible futures for IT education in Australia. He will detail the ACS's submission to the West Review on Higher Education. He will also look at the implications of the report of the Discipline Research Strategy for Information Technology and the ACS's revised Core Body of Knowledge. He will argue that Australian universities need to re-equip for on-line education and re-skill their staff or go out of business.
This is a free event, but those not from Department of Computer Science, Australian National University, please book with Jim Grundy, e-mail: Jim.Grundy@anu.edu.au.
This document is: http://www.acs.org.au/president/1998/past/ited.htmDraft of 12 May 1998:
The content of this talk will be developed here. Suggestions and comments welcome: tom.worthington@tomw.net.au
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Mr Worthington is Special Adviser for Internet/Intranet Policy, with the Australian Department of Defence and Immediate Past President of the Australian Computer Society. Tom wrote the ACS Communique on IT higher education in 1998, launched the ACS/PAGE on-line postgraduate program in December 1997 and was a steering committee member of the Discipline Research Strategy for Information Technology.
Tom is a member of the Australian Computer Society, voting member of the Association for Computing Machinery, member of the Internet Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Computer Society. He is a member of the Council of Standards Australia.
Information Age magazine lists Mr. Worthington as one of the 10 most influential IT&T people in Australia in 1998. His work since 1994 has been on the policy and practice of implement of the Internet, including appearances before three Senate hearings. He established the first web home pages for the ACT Government, the Special Broadcasting Service, Australian Information Industry Association and the National Press Club.
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The Australian Computer Society is the professional association in Australia for those in the computing and information technology fields. It was established in 1966. The Society has over 14,000 members and on a per capita basis is one of the largest computer societies in the world.
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