Memorial University of Newfoundland combined with the Educational Television Centre to offer courses to off-campus students. (PG)

Author describes the facilities and services available at the University of Leeds Centre for Television Research. (HB)

Comparisons are made between four college economic principles courses: one-semester live lectures, programed instruction, and televised lectures, and, two-semester televised lectures, the latter producing the greatest content learning. Opportunity costs and other implications are discussed. (DB)

Presents an argument for being more lenient in letting schools use copyrighted media materials. Included are discussions related to "public" performances, public funding, guidelines for off-air taping of copyrighted works by nonprofit schools, home use, royalties, and possible ways to resolve the problem. (JN)

Educational television in China is described as a vital medium of instruction in higher education, alleviating shortages of instructors and facilities. The television universities serve both educational and political purposes while causing enormous frustration among college-age youth, for only one of 10 is admitted each year to universities. (MP)

Reviews research on the uses and potentialities of television in education with emphasis on work done with chemistry programs. Television is also compared with film from the viewpoints of producer and audience, and off-air recordings are compared with "home-made" programs. Forty-four references are listed. (Author/LLS)

A potent education force recounts its growth and development amid fiscal and administrative uncertainty. Data identify funding sources for radio and television and illustrate the growth of radio and television broadcasting. The report indicates that 94 percent of all public television stations broadcast some instructional/educational programs.…

Describes different styles and approaches toward broadcasting which could be used within the Open University Continuing Education Division. Three types of courses using television are discussed: advice courses, how to courses, and why (basis of knowledge) courses. Three references are included. (Author/BK)

Two of a series of working papers published by the Working Party of the Association of University Teachers of Psychiatry are presented: one concerns the uses of television in undergraduate teaching of psychiatry; the other deals with ethical aspects of the use of television in psychiatry. (Author/CMV)

A program title and an advance organizer were used in presenting affective television materials to large college-level classes of beginning v advanced chemistry. Results showed that the advance organizer significantly increased student comprehension but had negative affective consequences. Students' perceptions of the material's value and…

Describes a course in which a survey of local citizens' attitudes toward issues in broadcasting was prepared and presented on educational television. (KS)

Describes the Virginia Tidewater Consortium for Higher Education, a consortium of 15 colleges and universities located in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, which has operated its own cable television channel for the past 21 years. The channel serves the educational needs of the community and allows strategic alliances with other agencies. (EV)