Abstract

Abstract Lifelong education is more than an extension of existing provision, ‘schooling‐plus’. An important result of the microtechnology revolution will be to offer a challenge to the practice of education as primarily teacher‐centred instruction. Television already plays an enormously influential role in family life; its own transformation, to take account of the arrival of video, cable and other developments, implies a greater appreciation of the fact that audience response is the key to effective educational programming. Meanwhile, students are using video with increasing ease and familiarity and the advent of video discs offers exciting new opportunities. The contribution of video to stimulating imagination, and to a wider and deeper role for education in our changing society, is an intriguing one.

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