Presents an overview of interactive multimedia learning systems. Highlights include hardware platforms; authoring programs; benefits; cost savings; empowerment; multiple sensory learning; barriers to implementation; a strategy for the improvement of existing training programs; an evaluation checklist; and possible future developments. (Author/LRW)

The framework for an ideal computer-assisted career guidance system is a combination of a decision support system and an expert system. Such a system takes into account individual differences in all relevant dimensions and guides the user to the relevant information in the shortest way. (SK)

Synthesizes critiques of the computer-assisted career guidance system selection guidelines (CE 521 972) in terms of system and feature effects, qualitative features, benefits, and costs. Presents implications for practitioners, researchers, system developers, and policy makers. (SK)

Explains how the Arlington Independent School District (Texas) complied with the mandates of the Local Government Records Act. Topics include evaluation and needs, software selection, inventory and retention schedules, managing forms and records, standardized identification systems, finding specific records, costs and destroying obsolete records.…