Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) of India uses multiple media and modes for reaching out to its distant learners. For most of the programmes offered to these learners, print is the master medium and other media supplement it. Instructions for the Bachelor in Education (B.Ed.), one of the popular programmes of IGNOU, are also…

Paper deals with the question of classifying media in the context of teaching and learning processes. (Author)

This article provides instructional developers with a model for understanding instructional media. (RC)

A multimedia approach to education can be more effective than using a single, isolated medium. It encourages students to develop skills that print alone doesn't and enables educators to boost the value of media children are being exposed to anyway. Furthermore, the electronic media have strong motivational qualities for children. (KH)

The steps involved in setting up an individualized course utilizing multi-media are enumerated with an example of the individualized approach in secretarial science courses. The advantages to the program are that the focus is on the student, and the program is flexible and easily updated. (AG)

There is a trend toward greater ease of more dynamic and varied media in instruction today. Multimedia generally refers to a combining of modern with traditional materials. A media mix can liven up the classroom, provide for individual differences, motivate, and bring in the outside world. (DS)

Discussion of the education of students with autism focuses on the use of multimedia systems and reviews the current state of the field. Suggests that systems should be developed that directly address autism-specific impairments and considers autistic student education in the context of equality of access to education. (Author/LRW)

The Multi-Media Reviews Index is compiled on a cooperative indexing basis by professional AV personnel and librarians from coast to coast. The present installment continues the updating service begun in the October 1971 issue of Audiovisual Instruction, and supplements coverage contained in MMRI-1972. (Author)

Author discusses the advantages of using all of the senses in learning while looking at the disadvantages of AV hardware and software for medical education. (HB)

This evaluation of instructional materials is based on data collected from statistical summaries, predictive instruments, teacher and student reactions, in-depth studies, evaluation seminars, and observations. The materials covered are divided into two categories: (1) 16mm films and (2) building-level materials, including such items as filmstrips,…

How a basic media utilization course at the University of Utah has been developed on a completely self-instructional basis. (Author)

This is the summary of a larger paper describing the evolution of a mediated elementary accounting course at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. The course was initially developed as a 25 slide-tape lesson course which included 950 visuals and approximately 25 hours of instruction. One hundred students per semester took the course in the following…

This fifteenth annual report of the METRO evaluation center discusses continuing problems related to user acceptance of controversial materials, lack of and poor quality of film guides, and circulation of the right product to the right user as a preliminary to the evaluation of instructional materials. Based on statistical summaries, predictive…

The selected bibliographies and journals listed in this volume provide reviews of books, periodicals, and audiovisual materials of relevance for elementary and secondary school instructional programs. Section one furnishes booklists and nonselective bibliographies to aid in book selection; an inventory of specialized periodicals and periodicals…

A presentation of some guidelines on how to choose films that underline job opportunities. (Author)