These are exciting times for field of instructional systems.Society in general has determined that our school systems are not meeting current needs, and we are in a movement toward restructuring.More importantly,however, instructional systems practitioners are setting new directions in these efforts and promoting a systems view for the problems facing education.With advances in computer tecchnology, we see revitalized effors in the fields of knowledge engineering, expert systems, and multimédia educational technology.These emerging technologied will not only affect delivery systems, but also the way we study learning and conceive od the learning process.The discovery of instructional systems by industry, andd the movement toward performace systems technology willl affect our perceptions of the role of the instructional designer and the training of instructionalsystmes professionals.