What role does information technology play in the development and delivery of teaching and learning programmes in Pakistan?
I think we do the same things with information technology as do other sections of the University. We provide individual email access to students, faculty, researchers, and teaching staff, and, for example, almost all programmatic and academic announcements are now sent to the students via email. We have two multimedia-enabled computer laboratories for student use and these are complemented by four library terminals for public Internet access. We make some use of web-based technologies in our open learning courses not only in Pakistan but also for our current students enrolled at a distance from Central Asia and East Africa as well as Pakistan. Our library offers access to a large number of online journals and provides a small audio-visual facility. All our faculty, research and teaching staff have individual access to a computer. For example, average Internet use for faculty is some 17 hours per month. We already see the Net as an invaluable information resource but its use will only f
