EdTech'98 Proceedings: Vaile - Educational Broadcasting and the Web:<br> Opportunities and challenges for the ABC

Educational Broadcasting and the Web: Opportunities and challenges for the ABC

Ian Vaile
ABC Multimedia
Education Online producer

This paper is divided into several parts:

A quick look at the position of the Web as an Australian broadcast mass-medium.
An overview of present characteristics of educational broadcasting and the "new media" (online and CD-ROMs);
A summary of ABC Online's history and role
A case study of the ABC Education Online strategy.

It is largely written in summary form for online reading. For an interesting view on how people read on the web ("They Don't"), see Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox on this subject.

All external links cited in this presentation are live and correct as of 19 June 1998.

©1998 Ian Vaile
This document is a personal opinion as does not reflect any official ABC position or policy.