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Telidon, the Canadian videotex system, hils passed its market trials and field tests with flying colours.It is now achieving maturity as an electronic medium for the creation, storage and interactive use of text and graphics.It has been standardized (as NAPLPS, the North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntaxl, dozens of companies have come into being to generate and market support hardware and software, and agencies throughout Canada are exploring innovative applications for it.One promising realm of Telidon implementation lies in the field of education.The graphics protocol lends itself readily to computer-assisted instruction and interactive learning packages, to testing modules, distance education, and information retrieval.Teachers and students can use standard telecommunications systems to access remote educational databases.Increasingly, educational material using the Telidon protocol is also mounted on local multiuser systems, or on stand-alone microcomputer systems.The adaptation of popular, inexpensive microcomputers to Telidon through software and hardware peripherals makes Telidon/NAPLPS a particularly versatile and affordable educational tool.Telidon is easy to use, and the existence of a standard format means that courseware can be easily exchanged between institutions.In the interests of promoting the widespread development and use of educational material based on Telidon, CONSORTEL (the Consortium for the Exchange of Telidon and Telematics Materials) is introducing a quarterly catalogue.CONSORTEL is a consortium of some fifty colleges, universities, public libraries and other interested non-profit organizations, under the overall direction of the Inter-Provincial Association for Telidon and Telematics (IPATT).The consortium is establishing a prototype electronic network which should be operating by 1985.Beginning this fall, the CONSORTEL Catalogue will help to inform educators at all grade levels across Canada about Telidon products for education.The catalogue will list and describe courseware and lessonware, Telidon educational projects, software and hardware products that permit the implementation of educational material based on Telidon, and related papers and reports.The catalogue will

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