Traces the world-wide development of distance education, including recent innovations that have enhanced its status as an appropriate and effective mechanism for adult education and training. Discusses the separation of teacher and learner, the role of the institution, the use of technical media, the clientele attracted, and some current trends.…

The purpose of the symposium reported in this document was to define the major needs of technology-based distance education and to recommend appropriate future actions. The 1-day roundtable assembled 40 of the most knowledgeable leaders in the United States and Canada on serving adults' postsecondary learning needs through telecommunication. The…

The information in this report reflects the record of services provided by the Office of Instructional Technology during the 1989-1990 school year to help meet the educational needs of public schools in South Carolina. Information is presented in the following sections: (1) annual management plan, which entails the achievement of objectives in…

This brief description of a visit to the Dutch Open University (Netherlands) begins by noting that, although the university had been established only the previous spring, it already had over 20,000 students. It then outlines the activities undertaken by the three main operational divisions of the university, i.e., course development, education,…

This paper reviews the post-1975 research on the capacities, logistics, and costs of the various delivery technologies used in educational television, and details case studies of television-centered operations, particularly in relationship to adult learners. The paper begins with a section on general definitions and the capacities of various…

Resources listed in this annotated guide to state educational publications are entered alphabetically under the following topical headings: adult education, bilingual education, board of education, educational information, equal educational opportunity, Massachusetts Dissemination Project, Massachusetts Educational Television, nutrition education,…

The Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) closed circuit delivery system, which became operational on the California State University (CSU), Chico campus in 1975, has offered 61 courses (up to 13 per semester) with up to 27 transmission hours per week to campus students and people at six surrounding Regional Learning Centers (RLC). CSU,…

From 1956 to 1959, Chicago City Junior College offered courses for credit via open-circuit television. These courses, in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and languages, attracted an average for-credit enrollment of 1,261 students each semester, two-thirds of them women. The average not-for-credit enrollment each semester was 3,550…

With an eye toward further collaboration between U.S. and Japanese broadcasters, the overall approach and effect of Japanese educational television (ETV) is examined. While in the United States ETV has no advertisement and is non-profit, the Japanese only require that any advertisement be not obstructive to social education. Their broadcasting has…

This is the third in a series of bibliographies resulting from two decades of research on the use of television as a technical aid in education and in educational and psychological research. The works listed are all in German and appeared from 1960 through 1970. Four major sections include: (1) general problems, (2) television in schools, (3)…

The "Television Polytechnic" program of 1966 - 1970 was a joint effort of the Polish Ministry of Higher Education and Polish Television to provide televised education for working students. The subjects taught were those normally included in the first two years of the higher technical schools--math, physics, geometry, chemistry, mechanics…

The purpose of this literature review was to summarize results of experimental studies on the instructional effectiveness of audiovisual media in post-secondary education. Studies which met seven major screening criteria were used. A study was generally accepted if it compared performance of experimental and control groups on objective measures of…

Describes a five-state project which proved that a videotaped quiz show can be an effective format for teaching consumer education to teenagers and adults. (TA)

This paper explores how educators are using multimedia for distance learning, beginning with definitions of the concepts of multimedia, hypermedia, hypertext, distance education and distance learning. Three types of telecommunications technologies are described: multimedia with broadcast television, multimedia with interactive video (television),…

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…