Open AccessVideodiscs as Databases
Author(s) -
Junetta Gillespie
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
the iall journal of language learning technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1050-0049
DOI - 10.17161/iallt.v24i3.9436
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , computer science , database , multimedia , artificial intelligence
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.