Tony Becher and Richard Lyne

It is significant that the Brynmor Jones Committee, set up by the UGC in 1963 to consider audio‐visual aids in higher scientific education, recommended in its report two years later that a National Centre for Educational Technology should be established. The members of that committee were perhaps among the first to realize that audio‐visual aids formed an important component of the learning systems which would be one of the results of applying a technological approach to the educational process. And, while the Committee's proposal for a Centre was not immediately adopted, the National Council for Educational Technology was created in April 1967 to serve as a central agency for the promotion of research, the initiation of innovation and development, the coordination of training, and the dissemination of information.