When "Sesame Street" launched in 1969, it was the first show to attempt to teach young children school-readiness skills with catchy songs and playful Muppets. Not only did it revolutionize the children's media landscape, the program sparked a love of learning among generations of children all over the world. For "Revisiting the…

This book offers a remarkable range of research that emphasises the need to analyse the shaping of curricula under historical, social and political variables. Teachers' life stories, the Cold War as a contextual element that framed curricular transformations in the US and Europe, and the study of trends in education policy at transnational level…

This paper evaluates the effects of federal initiatives in educational technology in elementary and secondary education over the past half-century. While federal resources have been diluted across many programs, this paper focuses on the few initiatives in which the federal role was substantial and integral. The findings from this paper have…

In January 1985, the Coordinating Board of the Texas College and University System adopted rules and regulations to cover the offering of televised instruction by public institutions of higher education. An executive summary explains the rationale of this report, provides the major findings of a literature review, and compares data on enrollments…

Proposals are presented for policy development and planning for telecommunications courses in California community colleges, along with a paper which addresses the need for statewide telecommunications planning to serve the community colleges. After background material discusses the history of attempts at statewide planning for telecommunications…

The role of instructional television (ITV) in elementary and secondary education is assessed, beginning with an overview of the history of the medium from the first experimental educational broadcasts in 1933 to the present. Research in the area is reviewed, and three primary methods of evaluation are identified: (1) basic research, which measures…

Describes the technology of interactive television and shows how it can be effectively used in small, rural districts to allow students to have access to more instructional programs. It allows students to be taught in a normal manner with teacher/student interaction through the use of television. (MD)

Describes an interactive television educational delivery system connecting three small schools in rural Iowa. (MD)

A bill (S. 797) to establish a National Endowment for Children's Educational Television was designed to amend the Communications Act of 1934. This report contains evidence presented in support of the bill. Included are: (1) a statement of background and needs; (2) a description of the state of education in the United States, highlighting the…

This lecture considers the effectiveness of television as a medium for distance education in light of the experiences of the Open University in Great Britain. The main theses of the paper are that television is an important component of high quality open and distance education, but only when its unique teaching characteristics are exploited, and…

Describes a successful instructional television consortium developed by four small Illinois high schools. The system eliminated the need to transport students long distances for a quality education. (MD)

This annual report for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for fiscal year 1986 also summarizes the CPB's activities over the last 20 years. The front inside cover folds out to three pages and provides a chronology of the important events in CPB history from its inception in 1967 to 1987. A narrative report on the CPB's 20 years of…

This report describes the findings of a work committee on learning needs and media utilization, which conducted an investigation of: (1) the learning needs that exist at the macrolevel in South Africa in informal, formal, and nonformal education; (2) those needs that can be satisfied by the use of educational radio (ER) and educational television…

"Mathelps," produced by the Logan City (Utah) School District, is an hour-long interactive tutoring program aired on local cable television. Each broadcast features a mathematics concept followed by a brain-teaser contest, to which students phone in their solutions. (TE)

Reviews the advances in instructional technology during the past 60 years. Cautions that instructional materials are only as good as the minds that produce them. We must insist on computer materials that fulfill the potential of the medium. (MD)