Considers three powerful techniques--heuristics, context trees, and search via backward chaining--that a knowledge engineer might employ to develop an expert system to automate performance engineering, i.e., the branch of instructional technology that focuses on the problems of business and industry. (MBR)

Discusses a multimedia training delivery system called Compact Disk-Interactive (CD-I) and its use in corporate training environments. Information includes how companies are using CD-I, quality of learning through CD-I, hardware and software required to create a CD-I title, hardware required for delivery, advantages and disadvantages of the…