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Australian Journal of 
Educational Technology 
 
Volume 2, Number 2, Summer 1986. ISSN 0814-673X 

 

 
Contents 
 
Editorial ................................................................................................................ ii 
 John G. Hedberg 
 

Educational radio in its third decade: Redefining the concept  
of educational broadcasting in terms of new expectations and  
financial restraint .......................................................................................... 57-62 
 W. K. McGinnis 
 

After the review ... ........................................................................................ 63-66 
 Jill Lambert 
 

The role of the ABC in educational radio broadcasting ......................... 67-73 
 John Patrick 
 

Twenty-five years of educational radio: VL2UV and its world ............ 74-84 
 John G. Hedberg 
 

The role of radio broadcasting in TAFE .................................................... 85-93 
 Brenton Holmes 
 

The role of consortia in educational broadcasting .................................. 94-97 
 John Martin 
 

Radio-modem project ................................................................................ 98-102 
 Dinesh Srivastava, Jim Pollet and Brian Moore 
 

Evaluating LOGO: Use of the SOLO taxonomy .................................. 103-109 
 Wayne Hawkins and John G. Hedberg 
 

Realising the potential of interactive videodisc for education .......... 110-122 
 Peter Hosie 
 

Telephone, teaching and technical trickery .......................................... 123-127 
 Graham Anderson 
 

Ed tech and the Review of Efficiency and Effectiveness in  
Higher Education ........................................................................................ 129-138 
 James Steele 
 
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Editorial 
 
This year has seen a number of new developments in the field. Of note is 
the development of Australia's first videodisc designed for schools Ask the 
Workers . . . produced for the Western Australian Branch of the Australian 
Deafness Council by the Australian Caption Centre. A main player in this 
feat was the AJET business manager James Steele with a little design help 
from the editor! The common use of this type of technology in the form of 
CD-ROM will also prove interesting for education in that it can provide 
cheap and efficient storage of large amounts of printed material. We are 
fast approaching the time when each child can have access to an 
encyclopedia for the cost of a compact disc, and, as I have been advocating 
for a long time, the videodisc can be used to provide for all the slide needs 
of classroom teachers. In fact, it would be reasonably economical to 
provide every teacher with a personal 108,000 item slide collection on 
videodisc. This new technology integrates the aural, visual and data 
formats to produce the truly integrated package. However, in a society 
with this technology, the skills required to find and retrieve all the 
available information become critical for survival. 
 
In this excitement of the new and novel, it is tempting to overlook the 
existing technologies which have served the educational establishment for 
many years. This issue of AJET has as a special focus the role of 
educational radio today. In putting this issue together, we have tried to 
provide a variety of perspectives. To do so, we have twisted a few arms of 
busy people and asked them to reflect upon what they are doing and 
where you might expect the new developments to occur. In addition, we 
have included a number of related project reports which provide a 
coalface perspective on the use of telecommunications for reaching out to 
specific audiences. 
 
We have been delighted to receive the support for the journal as it makes 
its way through a second volume and fourth issue, the advent of new 
technology is making the task easier and the editors look forward to 
articles which focus upon innovations in thought, educational design, and 
equipment. 
 
In the next issue we hope to bring you some of the highlights of the 1986 
ASET conference in Perth, and for the following issue, we would like 
contributors to focus upon "Technology and the selling of education". If 
you are interested in contributing please send materials to us before the 
deadlines (May 25th, and October 26th, 1987) and preferably a hard copy 
with a disc (IBM or Macintosh format). 
 
John G Hedberg