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Australian Journal of 
Educational Technology 
 
Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 1985. ISSN 0814-673X 

 

 
Contents 
 
Editorial ................................................................................................................. 1 
 
Microcomputers and education ................................................................... 2-11 
 Alex Maggs and Elaine Ray 
 
Human-computer interaction and CAI: A review and prospectus ...... 12-20 
 John G. Hedberg and Neil R. Perry 
 
Computer videodisc education systems ................................................... 21-38 
 Raden Dunbar 
 
Promises, promises - Viatel and education .............................................. 39-46 
 Peter Hosie 
 
How media materials are used in university instruction:  
Reports of selected university faculty members ...................................... 47-58 
 Anne L. Russell 
 
The Luria model of information processing ............................................. 59-67 
 John Angus 
 
ATS-1 in perspective .................................................................................... 68-75 
 N. George Davies and E. Steve Seumahu 
 
The efficiency of educational communications networks:  
ATS-1 as a quasi-mass medium ................................................................. 76-86 
 James C. Lange 
 



Editorial 
 
This is the first issue of the Australian Journal of Educational Technology. 
Perhaps, in many years time, what you are holding may be a collector's 
item. What is more important is that this journal will continue to stimulate, 
to enthuse and, yes, to educate its readers as long as it exists. 
 
The Australian Society for Educational Technology was established in 
1977 and since that time has published a regular Yearbook. 
 
The Yearbooks have always contained a variety of informative and useful 
articles and it soon became apparent that these deserved a wider 
readership. It is expected that the new title of Journal will reflect more 
accurately what is in the publication and will attract many readers (and 
subscribers) both in this country and overseas. 
 
The direction of this new journal is not yet known but already enough 
articles have been received to publish a second issue immediately. It is 
quite likely that there will be at least two issues each year. 
 
It is the feeling of this editorial board that the AJET should be both 
accurate and scholarly but that it should not become dessicated. 
Contributions which are clear, concise (and even entertaining) should be 
welcomed. 
 
At the beginning of 1985, the Information Technologies seem to be 
developing at an exponential rate and Education is more important than it 
has ever been. The Australian Journal of Educational Technology is born at a 
most appropriate time.