What roles should the site play?
--for the organization as a whole?
--for the divisions etc.?
--for individual members?
--for non-members, prospective members?
What are the objectives the site should achieve?
What should be the role played by the website director and co-directors?
What vision ought it aspire towards?
What level of resources should be invested in the site?
What should be the source of these resources? the Academy itself, advertisers, others?
Discussion Theme # 2: Academy’s Discussion Lists and Related Lists
How can Academy and related lists learn from each other?
What opportunities exist for reframing the listmaster role to increase effectiveness?
What problems are listmasters encountering and what remedies have been tried?
Have any lists switched technologies? What issues are involved?
Discussion Theme #3: The Academy’s On-line Placement Service
What issues have come up in using the on-line placement service?
In what ways could the placement service be improved?
Discussion Theme #4: Policies to Guide Alliance Relationships Using Emedia
What does the Academy offer to emedia alliance partners?
What does the Academy want from emedia alliances?
What would some ideal alliances be?
How might the Academy’s website be used to facilitate alliances?
How might divisional websites and lists engage in emedia alliances?
How might interdivisional coordination be handled?
Discussion Theme #5: Using the Academy website to support research
How can the Academy’s website be used to support research?
What role might an Associate Editor for Electronic Publishing for each Academy journal play?
How might the divisional websites be used to support research?
How might alliances with website's outside of the Academy support research?
Discussion Theme #6: Using the Academy website to support teaching
How can the Academy’s website be used to support teaching?
What sorts of teaching-relevant exchange activities might be shared?
What other sorts of a partnership might benefit Academy members?
Discussion Theme #7: APA position and the Web
The APA’s policy is not to accept anything for publication in its journals that has appeared on a website. The essence of the APA’s position is that once something has appeared on a website, it has been published and, hence, is no longer an original contribution of interest to an APA journal.
How can authors use the web to ensure wide distribution of the material they have developed and still be eligible to have their work published in the Academy’s journals?
Discussion Theme #8: Copyright Issues, and the Web
What steps should the Academy take to ensure that its copyrights are protected but that authors rights to distribute their work are also protected?
Discussion Theme #9: Can Emedia bridge academia and practice?
How can emedia technologies help facilitate idea and other types of exchange between academic and practitioner communities?
What would be the characteristics of such an exchange?
What resources are needed?
Where are such resources available?
Discussion Theme #10: How can Emedia contribute to distance learning?
How might the Academy involve itself in distance learning?
What sorts of investments would be required?
Where might such investments come from?
Discussion Theme #11: How might Emedia contribute to increased involvement of non-USA institutions in Academy activities?
Which emedia are the most likely fits with non-USA based institutions, scholars, and researchers?
Which emedia are most cost effective for pursuing international exchanges?
We will ask the chair of each table to provide a summary of the discussion that occurred at each table.
The Socrates Proposal
Following these presentations, Paul Shrivastava will talk about his Socrates initiative.
Transformations with digitization at 3M