Development education, to increase understanding and awareness of the plight of underdeveloped countries and of the interdependence of nations, is being carried out through television programs on Britain's Channel Four by the International Broadcasting Trust. (SK)

Explores the politics, purposes, problems, and potential of instructional television (ITV) in lifelong learning, highlighting adult education ITV programs in Japan, Britain, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, India, and Canada. (SK)

Adult education in Sweden encompasses study circles, folk high schools, municipal programs, job training, and educational radio and television. The noncompetitive ethos of Swedish adult education is threatened by the current economic climate and pressures resulting from the influx of refugees. (SK)

A UNESCO survey on the use of the broadcasting media in combating adult illiteracy indicates a steady increase in their use. (AG)

The Anik-B project is part of the two-year communications experiments for which the Anik-B satellite is being used. The project was designed to explore the possibilities of using Interactive Instructional Television (IITV) to provide distance postsecondary education for people living in widely scattered and sometimes inaccessible areas of British…

Rural adult education projects using television in Tanzania, the Ivory Coast, Dominican Republic, and Guatemala are described and compared with special attention given to objectives, organization, selection and recruitment of supervisors, monitors and participants, use of communication media, feedback and evaluation systems impact, and…

THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS ITS VIEWS ON EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOR ADULTS IN CANADA. IT ARGUES FOR AN IMMEDIATE PLAN OF CHANNEL RESERVATIONS ENTIRELY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES TO BE IMPLEMENTED THROUGHOUT CANADA IN BOTH VHF AND UHF. IT CALLS FOR AN ALL-CHANNEL BILL REQUIRING THAT ALL SETS SOLD IN CANADA BE CAPABLE OF…

INTENDED FOR USE BY ADMINISTRATORS AND PLANNERS, THIS GUIDE DESCRIBES COURSES AVAILABLE FROM THE GREAT PLAINS ITV LIBRARY. FIVE INDICES ARE INCLUDED, ONE CLASSIFYING ELEMENTARY, JUNIOR HIGH, SECONDARY AND ADULT COURSES BY SUBJECT, ANOTHER LISTS THEM BY GRADE LEVEL. A THIRD LISTS COLLEGE COURSES BY SUBJECT, ANOTHER DESCRIBES INSERVICE…

INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION HAS HAD SOME REMARKABLE SUCCESSES, BUT ITS OVERALL IMPACT HAS BEEN INSIGNIFICANT IN THE LIGHT OF ITS POTENTIAL, AND OF THE INCREASING DEMANDS OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. FOR TRULY EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION, EFFECTIVE PROGRAMING ADAPTED TO THE NEEDS AND RESOURCES OF THE MEDIUM IS NEEDED, ALONG WITH INFORMED AND…

Recent research data have suggested that the mediated courses of Chicago's TV College have increasingly begun to draw from new and different populations of students with different characteristics and levels of ability. This study was designed to generate survey-type data regarding the demographic and attitudinal characteristics of a wide spectrum…

This report of a 1968 survey of educational television (ETV) in Canada presents information in seven sections. The first section, dealing with ETV in the schools, describes programs for national and local levels, the number and types of viewers of ETV, inservice workshops for teachers in how to use ETV, policy plans for equal opportunity among the…

The relative appeal and effectiveness of several television lesson formats designed for adult learners in an open university learning system were evaluated. One hundred and fifty-four subjects viewed video lesson segments in two college course areas, Accounting and Psychology. A variety of TV formats were used, including story-lines, short…

The first in a series of UNESCO studies entitled Experiments and Innovations in Education concerns an educational television project in Quebec. The project was conceived as the most economical and effective way of providing lifelong education for Quebec's undereducated adult population. Emphasized in the report is the importance in educational…

The Conference on Cablevision for Continuing Education and Community Programs was held to present the present situation of the development of cablevision in Canada and to indicate some of the future possibilities for its use in continuing education and community programming in Saskatchewan. Following the keynote address, three panels presented…

An experiment to study the use of a computer as an educational medium covered both higher education and continuing education. A general physics curriculum for physics and science education at the junior university level used multi-media computer-assisted and computer-managed instruction. In conjunction with continuing education the IMAGO method…