An overview of the current status of educational broadcasting in Sweden, with emphasis on important questions which need to be answered. (HB)

Advocates the re-institution of radio listening groups as a means for citizens to gather for a rational discussion of social issues, and reviews two past successes in this area. (AN)

Suggests a supplementary activity, a radio talk show, for botany students. The show highlights the current undertakings of plant scientists. (LS)

Article comments on the present needs of teachers in training where audiovisual matters, including radio broadcasting, are concerned and outlines the way in which such training takes place at Southlands College and the objectives sought. (Author)

An overview of the development and future of school radio. (HB)

Describes evaluation methods currently in use by the BBC's advisory councils and by external researchers in collaboration with them. (BR)

The primitive conditions existing in rural Ecuador created unique problems for the University of Massachusetts project attempting to develop educational tools for the area. Author describes the approach taken and the learning devices which were produced. (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)

A general look at the trends of language instruction, specifically French and German, via radio and television broadcast in Great Britain. (HB)

The present study is an updating of Robert J. Nelson's ERIC Focus Report No. 11 (1969) "Using Radio to Develop and Maintain Competence in a Foreign Language." Two major areas are examined: (1) the concepts behind the use of radio in language teaching and how this application of radio reflects changes in the theory and practice of foreign language…

The purpose of this study is to develop recommendations leading to the formation of an educational communications policy in the Province of Saskatchewan. Educational authorities in six provinces--British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland--were visited during the study. Questions related to the structure of the varying…

A project called "radioprimaria" is bringing classes by radio to fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in a rural area of Mexico to make up for the lack of teachers in these grades. Even though the project was largely unsupervised and plagued with disorganization and equipment problems, children taught with radio did as well as children in the…

A look at the use of educational radio in several developing nations. (HB)