Probable malpractice issues which are likely to confront professional instructional technologists in the future. (DAG)

Attempts to delineate and define more clearly what is meant by "begin instructional design by stating your objectives" and suggests that a lack of discrimination among three major sets of objectives has led to trivial, over-exclusive, or unmanageably large sets of terminal behaviors. (Author)

The use of television in PSI courses has two advantages: (1) student time involved in learning is comparable with that of students using only written material, and (2) it provides an avenue for learning for those students who prefer auditory learning to written learning. (Author)

The college of education can use video technology to save time and money as well as facilitate effective teaching. (Author)

A report on the development, implementation, and evaluation of an inexpensive support system providing for file maintenance, administration and scoring of tests, and feedback to the instructor. (Author)

This article describes Zimdex, an audio indexing system developed to solve the problem of indexing audio materials for individual instruction in the content area of the mathematics of life insurance. (Author)

Important considerations in selecting components of a model for a simulation game are (1) that each of the selected components must function in relation to the others, and (2) the planned impact of components in the context of the game. (Author)

Description of a program designed to provide an environment that is adaptive to individual differences, combining the advantages of a structured curriculum for basic skills development and an open learning environment for personal and social development. (Author)

Describes evaluation, revision, and decision to implement as the three components of LVR, and relates them to student tryout and revision, developmental testing, and formative evaluation. (DAG)

Clarifies the nature of sequential operations and explores some research in the area that has implications for the instructional designer. (Author)

Suggests an R&D process which has demonstrated its utility as a means of allowing researchers to communicate more effectively with both users and administrators (or funders). (Author/DAG)

Description of a strategy for a flexible, temporary service delivery mechanism that is accountable to local constituents. (Author/DAG)

The nature of our educational institutions requires that reliable projections of the future be obtained so that proper planning can be initiated. (Author)

The goal of the project described was to develop a "stand-alone" test scoring system based upon a micro-computer available to the hobbyist market. (Author)

The purpose of this article is to concentrate on the planning activities of the instructional development process in higher education through concentration on a particular planning device, the component diagram. (Author)