Crucial, technologically oriented issues currently facing educators are addressed in the following 11 articles: (1) "The Definition of Educational Technology: An Emerging Stability," by Donald P. Ely; (2) "Media Applications to Instruction: Current Theoretical Considerations," by Gerald M. Torkelson; (3) "The Dilemma of Visualized Research: Lack of Practitioner Involvement and Implementation," by Francis M. Dwyer; (4) "Processing Spatial Media," by William D. Winn; (5) "Involving Students in the Instructional Design Process," by John A. Hortin; (6) "Microcomputers: Where Did They Come From? What Will We Do with Them?" by Fred A. Teague and Doug Rogers; (7) "On First Encountering LOGO; Some Questions for Further Research," by Michael J. Streibel; (8) "Instructional Technology and Decision Making," by Robert Heinich; (9) "Educational Technology in the Near-Term Future," by Kent L. Gustafson; (10) "Picture as Visual Text," by Ann DeVaney Becker; and (11) "The Next Decade of Instructional Technology Research," by Richard E. Clark. Most of the articles provide a reference list. (LMM)