The Open University should increase its production of non-broadcast audio media and continue to support experiments with new communications technology. (Author/STS)

Comparison of the relative effect of two short courses in the general methodology of teaching on subsequent classroom performance of student teachers. One course was lecture-based, while the other utilized videorecording of student devised lessons. (Author)

Problems in distance education for both teacher and learner are discussed, focusing on the need and strategies for feedback for both parties. Instruction by live television is used as an example. Suggestions are given for solving problems of this situation and for translating the solutions for other learning situations. (MSE)

Reports on Japan's University of the Air (UA), a broadcast, distance education venture empowered to grant bachelor of liberal arts degrees in several curriculum areas. Discusses the project's background, the state of telecommunications in Japan, UA curricula and goals, and possible problems. (LAL)

The sixteenth in a series on instructional technology, this report on South Carolina's ETV network describes its relationship with individual institutions and how, in their own way, they make use of its services. Through its sharing of resources, outreach programs, and linkage of institutions, the ETV system has made possible otherwise unreachable…

Author describes how a television studio can be built with a minimum financial investment. (HB)

A discussion of how television is used for microteaching, evaluation in the field and self-instruction at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. (HB)

Author discusses the role of the director of a university television service. He believes that ETV at the university suffers from having been designated a service, a technical aid, rather than having been planned to develop and improve teaching and learning. (Author/HB)

A discription of the facilities and services at the Instructional Media Center at Grossmont College. (HB)

Author proposes a national task force to investigate and set forth a series of national goals in terms of the appropriate educational uses of cable television. (Author/MB)

With the Open University now in full operation, integrated multimedia teaching may be thought to be coming into it own in the adult education field. (Journal/EB)

"A proposal for basic reforms in higher education to meet today's needs." (Editor)