Several years ago the faculty of the University of Arkansas College of Medicine redesigned their approach to teaching the basic neural sciences by integrating them into a freshman-level neuroscience course. The primary goal of the course was to provide students with basic science information for application in solving clinical problems. This paper…

In eight years of operation, the Texas Association for Graduate Education and Research (TAGER) Television Instructional Network, composed of nine North Central Texas Colleges, has offered 1,132 academic courses. A total of 25,591 students have taken these courses. All instruction is live and features a talk-back system by which students may…

The value of instructional television for universities and public school systems has often been swallowed up in the complexities of producing programs. Television can be better used in the classroom as an instructional resource, taking advantage of already produced programing that is available from sources such as the Public Broadcast Service.…

Higher Education, the institutions as well as the associations, have long regarded adult or extension education as a stepchild; consequently, instructional broadcasting as an educational medium has been all but ignored. Yet by 1976 the establishment of the University of North America, a confederation of several radically different regional higher…

The establishment of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting makes possible vast improvements in the educational radio and television system in this country. The two crucial areas for communication are international communication and urban communication. In the urban ghettoes especially, old-fashioned education has left children frustrated and cut…

The technology of multimedia instruction has made rapid strides at Pennsylvania State University in the past 20 years. The media format is an economical way to extend course offerings to many campuses. The emphasis on economy, however, must be balanced with an interest in the quality of instruction in order to produce achievement that is equal to…

Brief essays on cable television, satellites, and other television opportunities are presented in this primer directed at higher education administrators and planners. Implications of the new technologies for education are suggested and key issues are highlighted. (LBH)

The author reviews some of the history of television as it has been used in teaching economics, describes some ways in which it is currently being used, and gives some thought to how it might be developed in the future. (Author)

Discusses results of a questionnaire evaluation of the techniques used to present a liberal arts chemistry course on educational television. (SL)

A view of the development and operation of a closed circuit educational television system in London. (STS)

While some teachers think cable television broadcasts of congressional proceedings reveal how public policy is made, others feel it is not a representative view, has limited access, and contains little useful material for the time required to obtain it. (MSE)

The twenty-first in a series of profiles examining the use of instructional technology at 24 institutions, this report describes an alternative system for delivering televised instruction to off campus locations via videotapes carried by private courier or mail. Colorado State was the first university in the nation to use this method. (Author/LBH)

This is the fifteenth in a series of profiles documenting experiences with the use of instructional technology at 24 colleges and universities. The report describes why and how the use of multimedia has become intrinsic to the educational process at Brigham Young. (Editor/LBH)

Described an educational program that grants new opportunity for learning through presentation of highly individualized instruction and a wider variety of courses and training programs. (Author/RK)

The TAGER closed-circuit television microwave network permits employees from seven cooperating industries in Texas to attend'' college courses originating on campuses as far as 100 miles away. In addition, students at the nine cooperating institutions enjoy a broader range of course offerings without putting a strain on institutional budgets, and…