Deryn Watson and David Tinsley The topic of the conference, integrating infonnation technology into education, is both broad and multi-facetted. In order to help focus the papers and discussion we identified 7 themes: ¿ Current developments in society and education influencing integration; ¿ Teachers, their roles and concerns; ¿ Learners, their expectations of and behaviour in an integrated environment; ¿ Developments and concerns in the curriculum; ¿ Successes and failures in existing practice; ¿ Organisation and management of integrated environments; ¿ Identification of social and political influences. Each author was invited to focus on one theme, and these remained strands throughout as can be seen from