Methods and advantages of audio and audiovisual typewriting instruction, as used by the Shawnee Mission (Kansas) School District, are discussed. (SH)

A discussion of the benefits of using instructional television at Thornton High School, Harvey, Illinois. (HB)

Describes several film series on British Creative Education made by Eileen Molony for the BBC. These series are available from Time Life Films, BBC Educational 16 mm Section, 43 West 16th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011. (MB)

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)

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)

Suggests that the major cause of poor usage of the arts in instructional television is the instructor's apprehension of the arts as something "special" and incomprehensible. Communication as a common element in both art and teaching could serve as a starting point in making the arts approachable by teachers. (CMV)

Article is a description of a highly successful reading program initiated in Philadelphia public schools in which utilization of actual television program scripts in combination with program viewing has improved reading skills and increased motivation among elementary and high school students. (RW)

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

Because of the positive effects of learning communities with undergraduates, these researchers proposed the Collaborative Learning Initiatives that Motivate Bi-cultural experiences model (CLIMB) to implement learning communities within graduate counseling and educational administration courses. This article examines the concept of learning…

A German version of the Sesame Street television program which integrates social and political education is described. (DE)

Presents among other things the didactic-methodological procedure in Teaching Units 3 and 4, Grade 10; the development of (predominantly monologue) speaking proficiency and proper translation into the foreign language, with special attention to measures to be taken immediately before and after watching the television program. (Text is in German.)…

Planned changes in instructional television programming for grades 5-10 for the school year 1974/5, and to some extent for 1975/6, are reported. Information regarding seminars for inservice training and suppliers of written material is given. (RM)