An annotated bibliography of recently published materials regarding media and adult education contains 1,661 items arranged under the following broad categories: (1) Issues in Media, (2) Media Types, (3) Program or Subject Area, and (4) General Combining Concepts. Items are further arranged into 59 clusters, which are labeled alphabetically,…

Details relevant to the operation of the Association for Continuing Education (ACE) for the year ending June 30, 1973 are presented. ACE is a non-profit corporation offering live, televised courses to employees of cooperating firms in the San Francisco area. Using the television facilities of Stanford University, instructional programs are…

These four Swedish press communiques describe government bills relevant to education. The matters covered in the bills include government funding of adult education programs, TV teaching, the copying of copyrighted materials for schools, an overall plan for post-secondary education, and educational grants to adults. (KM)

Discusses the television broadcasting of a refresher course in mathematics and engineering fundamentals for those preparing to take the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) State Board Examination in Alabama. (MLH)

The authors describe the University of Maryland's response to the training needs of instructional television faculty and students. The faculty training program consists of a orientation program featuring a videotape. The student training program is a package including a videotape and a student handbook to be used by off-campus students. (CH)

The Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Project, a 15-year plan to integrate telecommunications and advanced technology with higher education is discussed. Viewer-students can sign up with local colleges to earn academic credits. (Author/MLW)

Adults have increasing flexibility in taking advantage of college courses in their homes, since most U.S. public television stations broadcast television courses each semester. Most of the students for television courses are older than traditional college students, female, and employed. (Author/MLW)

TEVEC, a television adult education experiment in Quebec Province, Canada, is described in a summary of Raymond Lallez's findings. Combining television instruction with correspondence courses, TEVEC can be a model for countries whose population is spread over a vast geographical area, contributing to social and economic isolation. (Nine appendixes…

A description of a project to construct a mobile TV taping truck to augment an existing on-campus closed-circuit system at the University of Tennessee and extend higher education to the general public. (Author/HB)

Project Rural Family Development combines television, home study materials, telephone problem-solving service and home visitation into an effective new educational system. (Author)

Describes Britain's Open University, an arrangement whereby higher education is provided via the broadcast media on a mass basis, with no admissions criteria and allowing for flexible scheduling of courses taken by the student, and leading to an undergraduate or graduate degree. (AN)

An account of the recent televised mass adult education project, Project Multi-Media," in Quebec, Canada. Experience in one area of Quebec indicates that it works. Whether the program will work on a province-wide scale is yet to be seen. (Author/JB)

Discussed are the conference's "three main aspects: (a) defining the role of radio and television in rural areas at both school and adult levels; (b) studying the adaptation of programme method and content in the rural context; (c) examining the training of broadcasters for educational purposes. (Author/LS)

Discusses the progress of educational television systems in Latin America. Three types of systems are identified and evaluated, one a direct import of the European or North American models of conventional schools instructional television, and two that have been developed in Latin America. (CHC)