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Interactive videodiscs have been used as effective educational tools in business, the military, and by some disciplines and professional programs in higher education. The effectiveness and potential of videodisc applications stem from the combination of high quality video and audio with computer text and graphics into integrated learning programs. While the potential for social work education has been recognized, the literature is void of practical information on using this new learning technology in social work courses. The current article describes the development of videodisc applications at the University of Minnesota Dululh over the past five years and explains the current and potential use of these applications in specific social work curriculum areas.If social work education is to keep pace with advances in education made possible through new teaching strategies and tools, there is a need to continually assess new technological developments and systematically evaluate the instruction they may support. The cur- JOURNAL OF TEACHING IN SOCIAL WORKrent article describes the use of one important new teaching tool and provides insight regarding the effective use of this tool.Interactive videodisc applications offer tremendous potential as an educational tool. The essence of videodisc instruction is that it combines two powerful learning resources, video and the computer, into an integrated learning and teaching tool. Each videodisc side offers thirty minutes of video or 54,000 separate still images (or a combination of the two) and 60 minutes of high quality audio, all of which can be randomly accessed within seconds. The computer portion of the program offers almost unlimited randomly accessible text, stimulating graphics, and precise control over the video and audio that are available from the videodisc. Thus, any instruction that is available through videotapes, audiotapes, fdmsuips, slides, computers, or any combination of these tools can be integrated into a single videodisc application. The interested reader is referred to Schwier (1988) for more information about videodisc hardware and its capabilities.Videodisc applications have been used very effectively in varied educational settings. The business community has used videodisc applications widely with very positive results, and videodisc applications are also used to educate military personnel around the world (DeBloois, 1988). This technology has been developed more slowly in academic settings, but the effective use of videodisc applications in higher education is now being documented (Carlson & Falk, 1989). Reinoehl and Shapiro (1986) have previously described the potential of interactive videodiscs as a linkage tool for social work education. They suggested that concept learning, drill and practice, and simulations could provide excellent learning opportunities and that videodisc-based instruction would enable the blending of theory and practice in the classroom. The article does not, however, share any first hand experience with using videodisc ap...