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Download full textAdvance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2017
Rural communities all too often face scarce funding, instructors and facilities, forcing institutions to choose between offering a variety of introductory courses across a breadth of subjects or providing more narrowly focused, sequenced programs within one or two priority Career Clusters. Providing learners access to diverse career pathways in…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Rural Schools, Access to Education, Partnerships in Education
Practical Concepts, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1976
This summary reviews the recommendations of the first annual report, describes the Education Satellite Communications Demonstration, and discusses its impact on Alaskan affairs and institutions. Based on this, it presents educational alternatives and new experiments appropriate to Alaska's needs in three areas: (1) physical implementation of the…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Demonstration Programs, Educational Policy, Educational Television
Polcyn, Kenneth A. – Educational Technology, 1974
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Educational Experiments, Educational Television, Formative Evaluation
Practical Concepts, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1975
This volume contains the raw data and descriptive materials which form the basis of Volume I, "Analysis of the Demonstration." The information is divided into three categories: (1) description of the overall study plan, (2) compendium of user reaction to program, and (3) a chronology of critical events and their documentary basis. A…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Data, Demonstration Programs, Educational Policy
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A supplement to the final report, "Design for an Analysis and Assessment of the Education Satellite Communications Demonstration (ESCD)," this document is both: (1) a separable, sociologically oriented evaluation of the ESCD impact on Alaskan native villages; and (2) a direct extension of the work described in sections 4 and 5 in the…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Educational Assessment, Educational Television, Evaluation
Inouye, Ron; And Others – 1979
This 3-section guide was compiled to provide assistance to teachers who want to work with video in the classroom, and also to relate the experiences of students and teachers who participated in the video project, "Ptarmigan TV." The first section describes the significance of using video in the classroom and explains what video is and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Demonstration Programs, Educational Television, Production Techniques
Practical Concepts, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1974
A second bimonthly report describes progress made on six tasks enumerated in earlier reports and specifically points out three new issues raised by the demonstration: the question of the use of telecommunication for other than educational purposes, the discrepancy between the project's concept and reality, and the usefulness of a project for…
Descriptors: Communications, Communications Satellites, Community Involvement, Demonstration Programs
Walp, Robert M., Ed. – 1982
The 26 papers in this collection present the history and organization, system components and techniques, social aspects, and economics of telecommunications development in Alaska, with special emphasis on the growth and use of satellite systems. The first five papers cover developments beginning when Alaska was still Russian-owned, and also…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Television, Information Networks, Rural Areas
Gunter, Jonathan Forrest – 1975
This study develops guidelines for the use of television in nonformal education in developing countries. Its recommendations are based on analysis of three cases of television usage: in the formal educational system in El Salvador, community development in village Alaska, and in nonformal education for parenthood in Bogota, Colombia. A selective…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Programs, Developing Nations, Educational Development
Practical Concepts, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1974
A bimonthly report describes a recent work to determine the use of satellite educational television in remote and isolated rural communities, especially those inhabited by native Alaskans. It is believed that educational satellite communication has its greatest potential in Alaska because of these conditions. The report describes the scope of the…
Descriptors: Communications, Communications Satellites, Demonstration Programs, Demonstrations (Educational)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC. – 1975
The Applications Technology Satellite-6 (ATS-6) pilot study being conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) includes 20 experiments in the use of satellites for educational delivery systems in rural areas and for scientific and technological information dissemination. Initial usage of the system has been in North…
Descriptors: Communications, Communications Satellites, Delivery Systems, Developing Nations
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Div. of Instruction and Professional Development. – 1975
The National Education Association (NEA) in conjunction with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Library of Medicine, The Alaska Broadcasting Commission, and the Pacific PEACESAT Network, conducted four satellite experiments designed to improve professional communication among teachers. These programs were the Satellite…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Educational Innovation, Educational Media, Educational Television
Peer reviewedOrvik, James M. – Journal of Communication, 1977
Evaluates the Educational Satellite Communications Demonstration in Alaska project in educational television within the context of the rapid social change in land ownership, employment, and schooling. (JMF)
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Communications Satellites, Community Involvement, Cultural Context
Bramble, William J. – Learning Tomorrow. Journal of the Apple Education Advisory Council, 1986
The distance education and instructional technology projects that have been undertaken in Alaska over the last decade are detailed in this paper. The basic services offered by the "Learn Alaska Network" are described in relation to three user groups: K-12 education; postsecondary education; and general public education and information.…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Educational Television
Development Communication Report, 1979
The title reflects the first and major article in an issue of this newsletter devoted entirely to communication satellites. This series of articles on the potential and applications of communication satellites in development projects is concerned with their development for commercial and public service, development in the Pacific region, SPACECOM…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Communications Satellites, Demonstration Programs, Developing Nations
