When "technology" is used in reference to education today, the term is most often thought of as being synonymous with computers. In the past, however, the term "educational technology" also included other apparatus, either to disseminate information in a classroom, e.g., the overhead projector, or to transmit information some…

Discusses the production of an award winning educational television program. (MM)

Ontario's educational television station, TVO, has developed into one of the most exciting broadcasters in North America. Federally licensed and provincially controlled, the Toronto based system achieves quality programming amidst a maze of 22-channel offerings. (RAO)

The 19 articles that comprise this book are concerned with the subject of communications and media in Canada. In Part One, "The Media: A Diagnosis," the articles are "The Power and Impotence of the Media" by Russell Elman, "The Myth of Objectivity" by Walt McDayter, "In the Shadow of Giants: Concentration and…

A brief description of an educational television program established to offer "off-campus credit courses... to remote parts of a province whose basic character is shaped by the sparsity and peculiar distribution of its population." (Author/AK)

A case study prepared by CEDO and the Commonwealth Secretariat for the Report on the Use of New Media for Educational Purposes in Newfoundland. (Author/HB)

Two recent projects using retrieval television, which permits teachers to request program transmissions for individual classrooms, are compared. Many dimensions of student and teacher reaction to retrieval television are reported for the Ottawa Project. These results and the expense and/or channel restrictions of retrieval television lead to the…

Discusses the services of the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA), which has a nine station TV network, a nonbroadcast videotape distribution system, many interactions with cable companies and domestic satellite transmission, and a databank indexing OECA resources. (JEG)

In January 1980, TVOntario, a television network operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, began to use computer managed learning in conjunction with television broadcasting for adult learners. The three projects which have been carried out since then have brought promising results. (Author/LLS)

Some of the experiences of four Canadian companies (Manufacturers Life Insurance, The Steel Company of Canada, International Business Machines, and Gulf Oil Canada) are used to illustrate possibilities for the use of the video medium by large businesses. (SA)

One of Canada's leading authorities on the teaching of language arts examines the award-winning television show, and has some reservations about it. (DM)

A look at several of Canada's most ambitious audiovisual programs. (LS)

With the assistance of the Canadian Captioning Development Agency, TVOntario has undertaken to determine the efficacy of applying closed-captioned television to the needs of adult learners who are not hearing impaired. In this research study, actual and potential applications of closed-captioned television for hearing audiences in Canada, the…

A discussion of how the Ontario Television Agency produces, distributes and broadcasts educational programming. (Author/HB)