The penetration of cable television throughout American communities makes it a potentially significant tool for improving the quality and accessibility of adult education. As cities begin to include in the cable franchise allotment monies for access by community members, adult educators need to become actively involved during the development of a…

This paper describes the development, production, and delivery of a live, interactive telecourse in effective study techniques that is targeted toward individuals contemplating returning to formal education after a prolonged absence. The course, which deals with such topics as hearing and listening, reading, remembering, notetaking, and mind…

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) established three programming services in 1979 by vote of the member stations. One of these services, PTV-3, delivers specifically educational programming serving out-of-school youngsters, providing inschool instruction, and offering adult education. While the number of adults earning college credit through…

Citing wrong priorities and methods and lack of conviction as reasons for illiteracy in India increasing by about 15 per cent in the first 24 years of independence, the author calls for emphasis on primary and adult education, some of it informal, as in the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment. (JT)

THIS DOUCUMENT DESCRIBES THE JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM STANDARDS FOR JAPAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (NHK). NHK PROVIDES ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS WITH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE CORRESPONDENCE COURSES ARE OFFERED, AS ARE VOCATIONAL AND SOCIAL EDUCATION COURSES. (MS)

With a view to showing how Independent Television Authority and Independent Television have met the parliamentary injunction to educate, inform, and entertain, this document attempts to present the varying methods used, and the weaknesses and strengths as well as the originality and traditionalism of the programs offered to the adults of Britain.…

This publication includes discussion of the use of "combined teaching systems" (and most specifically television) in various European adult education programs. Brief reports are included on several programs (general and technical education, and arts and letters courses, in France; literacy in Italy; and various televised courses in…

The objective of the television series "Feeling Good" is to help adults improve both their physical and mental health and that of their children. More than 300 doctors and health experts participated with Children's Television Network (CTW) in selling the 11 priority topics for the series: alcohol abuse, cancer, child care, dental care,…

This is the first of a planned series of Aspen Notebooks on cable television (CATV). Part I reports on research conducted by the Aspen Workshop on Uses of the Cable. It describes the status of continuing education and the history of educational television and explores the prospects created by cable's development for extending access to continuing…

The selected literature review in this booklet reflects the continuing controversy in the field of adult education over the place that should be accorded by adult educators to noncommercial cultural-informational television (Public Television or PTV). The writer contends that educators' views and definitions of the field of adult education are…

The forms of adult education in Sweden discussed in this review include the courses provided by the Labour Market Board, the folk high schools, the national and local educational schemes, the Commission for TV and Radio in Education (TRU), and the training courses arranged by the employee organizations. Brief mention is also made of the courses…

Dutch television producers investigated methods of redesigning thematic educational broadcasts directed at independent adult learning. Results focused on context and image, content, form, and appeal to the audience. (Author/LRW)

A learning activity level scale was developed to assess the learning efforts of older persons with minimal formal education. The sample consisted of 132 urban, black men and women, aged 60-94, with mean educational attainment of six grades. Results showed that sex and self-perceived reading ability emerged as the most significant predictors.…

Explores alternative methods of higher education that are easily applicable to other than post-secondary institutions. (Editor)

Describes England's Open University, an attempt to offer courses and degrees to 20,000 working adults by means of a correspondence program centered around educational television. (LS)