Videodiscs as Databases

The special properties of videodiscs, the economicsof videodisc production, and the nature ofour educational system are put forward as argumentsin favor of making cost effective videodiscsby designing and utilizing them as aural andvisual databases designed to be utilized at avariety of levels and in a variety of instructionalcontexts rather than as the basis for highly evolvedand specialized lesson designs or as ''just anotherway" of delivering film or videotape.