Introduction Part 1: Ba.ls and needs for education for the new technology 1. Schooling and new technology: rhetoric and reality 2. Learning strategies: a new instructional technology 3. Developing a rationale for the new technologies in education 4. New perspectives on open and distance learning for adult audiences Part 1: National Perspectives 5. Information technology and education in the UK: a survey of recent developments 6. Education for the new technologies: current developments in Bulgarian schools 7. Educational informatics: some Romanian initiatives 8. Informatics in Danish schools Part 3: Specific Invitation9. Staff development and microcomputers: an Australian case study 10. Practising educa1ion with the new information technologies 11. Computer conferencing in teacher in-service education: a case study12. Hillingdon TVEI project: a case study of a national initiative in curriculum development 13. Education in new technologies for those in employment Part 4: Some questions 14. No flowers, no fences: is NIT paving the road for our children's future? 15. The myth of vocationalism 16. How should new technologies be used in education? Part 5: Bibliography and biographical note