Presents a concise historical review of the use of satellites in education, including legislation, proposals, research, and descriptions of several working systems. Thirty-nine references are cited. (JEG)

This article describes how to involve students in creative follow-up activities for the six-episode public television series called "Newscast from the Past." Suggested are a class newspaper, mock interviews, time lines, and student-made newscasts complete with commercials. Includes ordering information for the teacher's guide to the…

Provides an overall view of the present state of educational broadcasting in Greece, discusses the main reasons that hinder its development, and proposes solutions for improvement. Government control and the direct imitation of foreign broadcasting programming are cited as two main problems that need to be overcome. (Author/LRW)

Discusses television in the 1960s as a form of communication including commercial television (CTV), public television (PTV), educational television (ETV), and instructional television (ITV). The Educational Media Study Panel (EMSP), an official advisory group to the Commissioner and the U.S. Office of Education, studied the growth of television…

Television presents a new, flexible, and inexpensive means of illustrating a lesson. Television is both audio and visual, to use the term audio-visual, applied in the past particularly to motion pictures, film strips, slides, recordings, and similar valuable aids to teaching. Television is a picture in motion with sound occurring at the same…

Chronicles the development of public broadcasting from early attempts to develop noncommercial radio through organizations such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting Service. Discusses the need for federal support and the resulting conflicts. (JMF)

Discussion of the relationship between education and broadcasting in the United States focuses on a historical review of periodical literature published between 1919 and 1924 relating to the educational use of radio, and literature published between 1937 and 1974 relating to the educational use of television. (35 references) (LRW)

Discusses the history of mass media in higher education in three phases: early developments, 1920-1948; experiments with educational television, 1950s and 1960s; and major production and use of educational telecommunications, 1967 to present. (SK)

Focuses on one of the founders of educational television Freida Hennock. Discusses her early career, appointment to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), initial call for educational representation at FCC hearings, response to educational channel assignments, belief in childrens television, and ongoing struggle for educational programming…

One of the notable evidences of growth in the field of educational radio and television is to be found in the increasing volume of new literature as it emerges each year. The Office of Education's Radio-Television Services, under the direction of Franklin Dunham, have followed the practice through the years of issuing periodically a bibliography…

Describes the distance education program developed at the University of South Carolina's College of Library and Information Science that is delivered primarily via telecommunications. A history of televised instruction in South Carolina is provided, and distance education students are compared with traditional students. (LRW)

Presents a breakdown of spending from 1971 to 1980 by the U.S. Department of Education (and its predecessor, the Education Division of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) on educational technology research, development, and demonstrations and on support for purchase of equipment and facilities. A reference list is included.…

Reviews the achievements of public television in children's programming during the 1970s. Instructional programs as well as those for entertainment are covered, and funding sources for production past and present are discussed. Implications for the next decade of programing are briefly examined, and a selected bibliography of 42 items is included.…

Describes the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) approach toward research and development and provides an overview of this issue that highlights CTW. The CTW model of research and development is explained; formative and summative evaluation are discussed; and changing learning environments at home, at school, and in the community are considered.…

This report reviews the 32-year history of the provision of instructional television by the South Carolina Department of Education's Office of Instructional Technology and the South Carolina Educational Television Network. Black and white photographs and text show the history of educational television programming and its utilization, as well as…