College-level instructional programs using a variety of media and aimed at adults pursuing degrees, specialized knowledge, or enrichment are described. The types of programs covered are: (1) learning programs which use a combination of various technologies, such as a text, study guide, audiocassettes, television programs, newspaper features,…

Educational television has become an increasingly important successful element in television programing. This element can be introduced in the classroom through the frequent use of videotaped theatrical skits which illustrate points made by the instructor and which have been prepared in a television studio. The skits may be classified as either…

To study the impact of "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company" on teaching methods in kindergarten through second grade, a questionnaire was designed and mailed to over 300 Washington, D.C., area teachers. Results taken from the 75 returned questionnaires indicated that a majority of teachers used television in their…

The purpose of this dissertation is to present a study of a specific television course, American literature for the 11th grade, which was created in 1957 and was taught, revised, and received from that date to 1963 in high schools in Detroit, Michigan. The areas studied as they relate directly to this course and the medium of teaching were: (1)…

A discussion of how micro teaching affords teacher education majors the opportunity to study and perform a series of basic teaching skills which all teachers use during instruction. (Author)

This article describes an experiment in the use of television for teaching economics which was conducted at Leeds University in Great Britain in the period 1972-1975. A publication of the Economics Association, the journal is available from Business Manager, Economics Association, Room 340, Hamilton House, London, W.C.1H 9BH. (Author/RM)

Provides examples of innovative use of television in teaching students and providing teacher inservice training. (IRT)

Television presents a new, flexible, and inexpensive means of illustrating a lesson. Television is both audio and visual, to use the term audio-visual, applied in the past particularly to motion pictures, film strips, slides, recordings, and similar valuable aids to teaching. Television is a picture in motion with sound occurring at the same…

A description of how television was used in Colombia to inform science teachers of the principles that lie behind the new methods of science teaching. (HB)