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Australian Journal of 
Educational Technology 
 
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 1988. ISSN 0814-673X 

 

 
Contents 
 
Editorial ................................................................................................................ ii 
 
ASET response to Higher Education: A discussion paper ............................. 1-19 
 
PACE in Europe - delivering for advanced continuing education ....... 20-30 
 Norman Longworth 
 
The ABC's changing role as a provider of education  
television programs ..................................................................................... 31-45 
 Grahame Ramsay 
 
Education talkback: Television for interactive learning ......................... 46-58 
 Tony Dean 
 
In flight or in plight? Audio visual departments in  
Australian CAEs ........................................................................................... 59-69 
 Mark Norman 
 
Book review: Distance education and the mainstream:  
Convergence in education .......................................................................... 70-71 
 Kenneth Singh 
 
Index to AJET volumes 1 - 3 ....................................................................... 74-90 
 
 
 
 
 
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Editorial 
 
This issue appears at a time when Higher Education is going through a 
shakeup in Australia. At the time of compiling this issue, there has just 
been announced an inquiry into the ways new technology can improve 
education. Mr John Brumby MP, Federal Member for Bendigo, and 
Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on 
Employment, Education and Training announced that the Committee 
would be looking at the opportunities offered by videodisc, facsimile, 
computer-based and satellite technology to increase access to education, 
and to improve the standard of teaching. Mr Brumby has said that the 
Committee will be examining the potential use of this technology in 
distance, rural and remote education and the possible uses for the 
technologies in metropolitan areas. 
 
The changing climate of educational technology is perhaps best described 
in the submission made to the review of Higher Education focussing on 
the Green paper. A submission has been made to this debate and it is 
included in the issue as the first paper. The remaining papers show the 
quality of development and evaluative work being undertaken in this field 
both in Australia and overseas. 
 
AJET has an increasing wide audience, not only amongst the members of 
ASET but also amongst policy makers, ABC producers, Industrial 
Trainers, and readers in many countries around the world — Denmark, 
Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong and the list is 
growing! If you are interested in contributing to the next issue, please send 
materials to us before the deadline (October 28th 1988): hard copy with a 
disc (IBM or Macintosh format) if possible. 
 
John G Hedberg 
Editor 
 
 
 
Editorial Advisory Panel 
 
Robin Bishop, Correspondence School, Sydney 
Andrew Grieg, University of Sydney 
Colin Latchem, Curtin University of Technology 
Rod MacDonald, Institute for Technical and Adult Teacher Education 
Alex Millar, Victoria College 
John Mitchell, Melbourne State College