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Australian Journal of 
Educational Technology 
 
Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 1998 
ISSN 0814-673X 

  
 

Contents 
 
Editorial ....................................................................................................... iii-iv 
 
Using interactive multimedia to improve operator training  
at Queensland Alumina Limited ............................................................ 75-87 
 Sue Bennett and Peter Reilly 
 
Challenges of multisite video conferencing: The development  
of an alternative teaching/learning model ........................................... 88-97 
 Trish Andrews and Greg Klease 
 
A socio-cognitive framework for researching learning  
with IMM ................................................................................................. 98-106 
 Tony Fetherston 
 
Quality evaluation of educational multimedia systems ................. 107-121 
 Binh Pham 
 
Web-based conferencing: Pedagogical asset or constraint? ........... 122-140  
 Gerry Foley and Sandy Schuck 
  
 
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Editorial 
  
 
This issue of the Australian Journal of Educational Technology offers 
articles on a range of instructional technologies and applications with 
discussions of a range of research and development strategies. 
 
Sue Bennett from Central Queensland University and Peter Reilly from 
Queensland Alumina Limited describe a joint project involving the 
design, development and implementation of a multimedia training 
package. Their paper describes an initial evaluation and the progress of 
the project to date and the current and future strategies for evaluation of 
the training program. Trish Andrews and Greg Klease from the Central 
Queensland University describe a video conferencing project which was 
implemented to deliver simultaneous interactive instruction in first year 
chemistry to three campuses - Rockhampton, Mackay, Bundaberg. Tony 
Fetherston from Edith Cowan University presents some cogent 
arguments supporting the use of Gardner's multiple intelligences as a 
potential framework for the study of educational multimedia. 
 
 

 
 

 
 

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Gerry Foley and Sandy Schuck from the University of Technology, 
Sydney have written a paper which describes the use of a web based 
conferencing tool to promote dialogue within an international 
community of mathematics educators and prospective school teachers 
on the nature of mathematics and mathematics learning. Binh Pham 
from the University of Ballarat has provided a paper which discusses 
strategies for the evaluation of multimedia systems from both a 
cognitive and technical perpsective. 
 
The papers in this issue, as with all papers in the Australian Journal of 
Educational Technology, have been peer reviewed and recommended 
for publication by academics and researchers prominent in the field of 
instructional technologies. We hope you enjoy reading the journal and 
hope that the papers provide you with some valuable and challenging 
ideas for your own work. 
 
Ron Oliver 
Editor 
  
 

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Ron Oliver (Editor), Edith Cowan University 
Roger Atkinson (Production Editor), Murdoch University 
Cathy Gunn, University of Auckland 
Barry Harper, University of Wollongong 
Mary Jane Mahony, Orange Agricultural College, University of Sydney 
Clare McBeath, Curtin University of Technology 
Sue McNamara, Monash University 
Rod Sims, Southern Cross University 

 

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