Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of live interactive video teleconferencing as a learning tool. Suggests that its biggest advantage is that learning opportunities may be brought to thousands who previously were unable to participate in organized learning activities. (JOW)

Reviews relevant features for interactive video images of the four primary technologies that merge to intertwine themselves in interactive video (computers, television, instructional design, visual design); outlines critical structural elements of interactive video; and presents guidelines for creating interactive video images. (MBR)

Interactive videodisc technology (IVD) is an educational tool with enormous potential to help instructors help learners realize their full potential. Anyone who tries IVD is impressed by its power. (A companion article lists where to find information on interactive video.) (Author/JOW)

This annual directory includes names, addresses, and telephone numbers of major firms involved in the optical information field. Four major product groupings are represented: (1) interactive video; (2) WORM and erasable optical disks; (3) CD-ROM technologies; and (4) optical memory cards. An overview of the past year's developments in this field…

Compares teacher effectiveness of one-way video, two-way audio satellite telecommunications education offerings with traditional classroom, teacher-led offerings. Concludes quality instruction can occur via interactive satellite teaching. Notes the medium makes it difficult for teachers to determine student responses and easier for students to…

A new technological phenomenon known as "hypermedia" or "interactive multimedia" allows the learner to be in control and to access a variety of media with a computer. Advances in information storage technology have placed libraries of documents, sounds, and video and graphic images on laser discs. (MLF)

The authors describe how a small school district produced a major interactive video program on employability that won the Silver Star Award at the 1988 Houston Film Festival. Topics covered include obtaining financial support and assembling an ad hoc production company. (CH)

Describes four multimedia projects in Los Angeles, Tucson, and Flemington, New Jersey, schools and provides a glossary of technical terms. Interactive programs are benefiting students in middle-school math and science, high school history, and an elementary lifelong learning program. The multimedia approach is most successful at helping students…

Telephone cables connecting virtually every U.S. home, school, and work place will soon comprise national integrated services digital network allowing two-way video communication and fast data transfer on mass scale at affordable prices. Families, educators, and at-home workers will have routine access to video conferencing, distance learning, and…

Although experiencing theater through videotape is not equivalent to experiencing live theater, the magic of theater and live instruction was not entirely lost when one off-campus student transferred from classroom to off-campus viewing for a semester. Concentration on graphics became more important, and lighting and sound could be more easily…

Examines paradigms in instructional design and the collaborative design process. Based on experiences in a collaborative videodisc design project, a model of instructional design as art is proposed as an alternative to the generic characteristics of a systems approach. Promotion of culture-building in an instructional design environment is also…

Describes a general framework for the evaluation of sets of links for user navigation between images in pictorial data banks and gives an example of the construction of a connection graph in a large image bank. A study of user navigation behavior in this set of links is described and the results are discussed. (18 references) (LAE)

Defines multimedia and proposes a framework that classifies communications technologies by bandwidth (the amount and kind of data a technology is capable of storing, transmitting, or displaying) and applications. An introduction to the articles contained in this special issue on multimedia is provided, and some crucial concepts are highlighted. A…

Gives an overview of the development of multimedia, from the combination of film and computer graphics used during the 1960s to present day jet aircraft simulators. Definitions of multimedia, virtual reality, the use of compact disks to deliver digitally recorded information, and the economic need for the technology are discussed. (KRN)

Nine adults with hearing impairments received a speech recognition drill using interactive video disk technology which included immediate feedback and partial cuing. Eight similar adults received a noninteractive video approach with delayed feedback and no adaptive instruction. No significant differences were found between groups in posttraining…