Charged with the design and implementation of an evaluation framework for a new medical curriculum, the authors sketch some of the technical and human problems encountered with on-line evaluations and identify the need for a well planned and resourced approach towards a better co-ordination between the management of the Web environment and the Faculty. More importantly the accelerated pace of change of knowledge brought about by the greater accessibility of information through the use of media emphasises the urgency of a new orientation to teaching and learning.

This paper presents a framework for selling up a system to deliver on-line learning and leaching materials via the Internet, with enhanced rich-text, graphics, video on demand, interactive revision or self-test exercises, synchronous and asynchronous chat groups, and a quality monitoring mechanism. A prototype system has been set up at the Department of Building and Real Estate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is being used in some of the undergraduate teaching. It is planned that a new MSc programme in Project Management will make full use of the system for the distance-learners.

This paper examines the potential of using Web-based technologies in cross- curricular education and iden1fies the need for a locally based site for teaching and learning. In addition, ii also gives an analysis of a local research project called "Project Crucial", which is developed by the present authors, and discusses the use of Information Technology (IT) to turn schools from "content factories" to higher academic learning and communication centers.

We envisage a model of pulling the concept of using the Internet for education into real practice in school in which the student-teachers play the key role for the successful implementation. In order to achieve the target depicted in this model, a large scale teaching development project is being carried out to develop subjec-based courseware to give student-teachers at the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) intensive exposure to some interactive hypermedia resources for self-learning on the Internet.