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Australian Journal of 
Educational Technology 
 
Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 1993.  ISSN 0814-673X 

 

 
Contents 
 
Editorial ................................................................................................................ ii 
 
Creating and using digital audio files under the Windows 
operating environment .................................................................................. 1-11 
 Larry Nelson 
 
Instructional design and workplace performance .................................. 12-18 
 Leon Noone 
 
OASIS: The development of a school information system ..................... 19-29 
 Graham Pegler 
 
Student impulsivity in decision making with computer simulations .. 30-40 
 John King and Rhonda King 
 
Interacting at a distance: Staff and student perceptions of 
teaching and learning via video conferencing ......................................... 41-58 
 John Schiller and John Mitchell 
 
Are we recognising the organisational impact on  
educational software design? ..................................................................... 59-68 
 R. C. MacGregor 
 
Technologically mediated learning: The future  
of training in Australia ................................................................................ 69-86 
 Peter J. Hosie 
 
Formative evaluation of educational children's programs:  
A comparison of Australian and American models ............................... 87-97 
 Marianne Treuen 
 
Review of "Education and Work" ............................................................ 98-101 
 Deborah P. Bloch 
 
The Australian Journal of Educational Technology is published twice a year by AJET 
Publications. Manuscripts for publication should be sent to Associate Professor 
John Hedberg, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Northfields 
Avenue, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 2522. Enquiries about subscriptions should 
be sent to the Business Manager, Mr James Steele, AJET Publications, PO Box 772 
Belconnen, ACT, Australia, 2616. Subscription rate is $30 per volume ($45 foreign). 
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Editorial 
 
Time has beaten us on redesigning this issue, so you will have to wait 
patiently until the next. I would like to exhort our readers to contribute to 
the Interactive Multimedia debate as there are a number of conferences 
around Australia on the topic. No hard reasoned articles have yet been 
produced, especially ones with research data on elements of interactive 
multimedia. 
 
I would like to acknowledge the work by Margaret Cameron in helping 
with the editing of this issue, without her assistance it would have been 
substantially delayed. 
 
If you would like to contribute to our next issue please fax me and give a 
brief outline of your proposed article or even a disk which might be 
included! 
 
John Hedberg 
EDITOR 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Editorial Advisory Panel 
 
Peter Bartos, Overseas Telecommunications Corporation, Sydney 
Paul Findlay, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 
Marguerite Foxon, Florida State University, Tallahassee 
Barry Harper, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 
Kerry Kennedy, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 
Colin Latchem, Curtin University of Technology, Perth 
Sue McNamara, Monash University, Clayton 
John Mitchell, Institute of Education, University of Melbourne, Parkville 



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Australian Journal of Educational 
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