Purpose: To introduce concepts that are used when dealing with internet elements, hardware/software tools as well as cognitive processes and skills involved.

Six major sub-sections may incorporate many of the modular topics listed below

• The Management of Hardware
• The Management of Software
• The Management of Information
• The Management of Knowledge
• The Net Technostructure
• Net Skills and Competencies

1. Perspectives on the History of Information Technologies:
2. Hardware supporting the Cyberspace
3. Software facilitating communication through the cyberspace
4. Online and offline CD-Rom
5. Managing and moving files in the cyberspace
6. Searching in the cyberspace
7. Encryption, the right to privacy, freedom of speech, cyberspace censors
8. Authoring and publishing in the cyberspace
9. Audiovisual tools and animation
10. Fun and games
11. Communication skills in a multi-lingual and multicultural cyberspace
12. The meaning and use of time in the cyberspace
13. From the World Wide Web to the Multi-Media Mediocrity
14. Economic behavior in the electronic market place
15. Navigating information spaces: Cognitive processes involved
16. Coping with information load and overload: Skills involved
17. Net-etiquette and ethics
18. Technostructure and architecture of the cyberspace
19. Royalties, copyrights, fair use and netlaw dilemmas in the digital age
20. Cyberpsychology and telematics

Purpose: How internet may be used as a continuous learning tool among scholars and practitiones

Six major sub-sections may incorporate many of the modular topics listed below

• The Virtual Classroom
• Online Instructional Design
• Web-based Training
• Web-based Assessment and Evaluation
• Web-based Follow up and Transfer of Training
• Learning Infrstructures

1. Studying and learning strategies of wired students
2. Changing the teaching infrastructure in a digital campus
3. The productivity of online learning
4. The role of scholars and tutors in the digital age
5. Faculty and Digital Technology
6. High vs. low cost information technologies & continuous higher education
7. The Electronic Library and conventional libraries in the electronic age
8. Telepresence and Interactive continuous training
9. Internet I and Internet II
10. Tutoring and distance learning for practitioners in psychology
11. Instructional software online and offline
12. Integrating Information Technologies in the design of courses
13. Credits by cable
14. Towards the virtual classroom
15. Information Technologies & the changing boundaries of continuous training
16. Online case studies
17. Follow up of alumni trough discussion lists
18. USENET as an online encyclopedia
19. Information usage and knowledge management
20. Studying and annotating online hyperdocuments
21. Comprehension, Coherence and reading strategies in hyperdocuments
22. Design of learning system and experiences via online
23. Financial aspects of Training and Development programs via online
24. The continuous learning and training environment via online
25. The consulting function via online
26. Instructing via online
27. Adult learning via online
28. Conventional instructional strategies transformed into online instructional media
29. New online instructional strategies and media
30. Training Needs assessment via online
31. Responding to Individual Training Needs via online
32. Follow up of training programs via online
33. Measuring training and development outcomes via online
34. Evaluating training programs’ outcomes via online
35. The follow up of the transfer of training via online
36. Professional growth of training staff via online
37. Performance Modeling via online
38. Unintended consequences of Information Technologies Training
39. The online Training and Development Department
40. The online training room and facilities
41. Online multimedia used as training audiovisual aids
42. Technology transfer from online service to the marketplace
43. Practical exercises for students via online
44. The online seminar

Purpose: How Internet tools introduce new approaches to carry out research projects

Four major sub-sections may incorporate many of the modular topics listed below:

• Research Online
• Electronic Meetings, Scientific Conventions and Virtual Communities
• Individual Differences
• Electronic Publishing

1. Online Laboratories
2. Data collection and databases
3. The scholarly record in the networked information age
4. The politics of science available online
5. Interviewing online
6. Netmeeting, a tool to analyze group behavior and communication patterns
7. Usenet, a tool to analyze role playing and informal communication
8. Mailing list, a tool to doing research online
9. Online individual researchers
10. Online surveys, inventories and questionnaires
11. Online social perception experiments
12. Online simulations
13. Role-playing and group dynamics in the cyberspace
14. Virtual communities as a social and clinical field experiment
15. Bulleting Boards as a domain for social field experiments
16. Gender differences in the cyberspace
17. Aging differences in the cyberspace
18. Social class differences in the cyberspace
19. Online cross cultural differences in the cyberspace
20. The barrier of language in the cyberspace
21. Scholarly publishing online
22. Scientific quality control in online scholarly electronic journals
23. University libraries and University Press
24. Scientific Congresses and conventions via online
25. National and International Scientific societies organized online

Purpose: How classical experiments and studies in each specialty could be reproduced and improved by using online tools and how new approaches in each specialty have been developed online

1. Industrial and Organizational Psychology
2. Psychological assessment and evaluation
3. Cross-.cultural psychology
4. Environmental psychology
5. Educational Psychology
6. Clinical Psychology
7. Community Psychology
8. Applied psycho-gerontology
9. Psychology and National development
10. Health Psychology
11. Human sexuality and dating
12. Economic psychology and consumer behavior
13. Psychology and Law
14. Political Psychology
15. Sport Psychology
16. Traffic Psychology
17. Social Psychology and Personality
18. Ergonomics and Human Factors
19. Human disabilities
20. Online employment and job search in psychology

For further details, please, contact

• José M. Prieto, Complutense University of Madrid
• Steve Kronheim, University of Maryland University College