CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE of Universities as Knowledge Institutions in the Networked Age

"The journal Policy Futures in Education (PFIE)...will publish a special issue on the impact of information technology and the Internet on universities: to keep and develop their role as knowledge institutions, how should universities reshape in this new environment? Sub-topics, such as open access to scientific literature and distance learning, have an established track of studies and proposals. However, it has not been common so far to aim at an integrated analysis of how universities will and should change to accommodate the changes brought by cyberspace in their specific role of knowledge user, processor, producer and disseminator...."