Described the efforts of a cultural anthropologist to produce a course for educational television and the effect of combining TV classes, correspondence techniques, faculty counseling and testing as well as coordinated text assignments. (Author/RK)

The Great Plains National Instructional Television Library provides for the acquisition, storage, duplication, and distribution of videotaped instructional materials, and for the annual publication of this catalog. In addition to giving information on prices, acquisition, and previewing policies, the catalog describes and outlines each telecourse.…

SUN, the State University of Nebraska, is America's most ambitious effort to exploit educational television's ability to distribute college-level materials broadly, quickly, and cheaply in order to serve those who cannot or will not go to the traditional places of learning. (Author)

The 1960's witnessed in Europe the development of distant study systems based, to begin with, essentially on radio and/or television together with correspondence courses. In secondary education these included the German Telekolleg and the French RTS Promotion, produced under the auspices of the Office Francais des Techniques Modernes d'Education;…

In the spring of 1971, the University of New Brunswick's Department of Business Administration offered a credit course entitled Management of the Enterprise'' on public television. (Author)

THE NATIONAL PROGRAM IN THE USE OF TELEVISION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAS AN EFFORT TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING TELEVISED INSTRUCTION AS A MAJOR RESOURCE IN THE TEACHING OF LARGE CLASSES. IT WAS ALSO CONCERNED WITH--THE KIND AND AMOUNT OF OTHER SERVICES NEEDED TO SET UP OPTIMUM CONDITIONS FOR LEARNING, SCHEDULING AND SCHOOL BUILDING…

Criticizes the television French course "Les Gammas" for the usual TV faults: the "student" is 80 to 90 percent onlooker-listener, and 10 to 20 percent participant. TV can teach essentially only auditory understanding. The course is described in some detail; it is found to have high motivational value. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A program of cooperative instruction making maximum use of educational television for 24 elementary schools and 2 high schools in American Samoa is described. The instructional team consists of studio teacher, research teacher, producer-director, librarian, classroom teacher, technical personnel. The team prepares cooperatively, the various stages…

This report summarizes results of a survey administered to Johnson County Community College (JCCC) students enrolled in two television courses, Classic Theatre, and The Ascent of Man, during fall 1975. Although questionnaires were mailed to 60 students in Classic Theatre and 121 in The Ascent of Man, usable responses were received from only 23 (38…

Describes the effectiveness of telecourses in adult outreach efforts and the contribution of community colleges in developing this medium, based on conclusions reached at the first meeting of the AACJC Task Force on the Uses of Mass Media for Learning. (RT)

South Carolina ETV is a multimillion dollar closed-circuit and standard open broadcast network reaching one-third of the state's public school pupils, hundreds of adults completing high school education, teacher certification, or graduate courses, and thousands of college students on campus or at home. Its college level programs are described. (JT)

Recent research data have suggested that the mediated courses of Chicago's TV College have increasingly begun to draw from new and different populations of students with different characteristics and levels of ability. This study was designed to generate survey-type data regarding the demographic and attitudinal characteristics of a wide spectrum…

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using in classroom two types of television instruction: videotape recordings and live programs. (CC)

In order to coordinate the efforts of the Northeast Regional Instructional Television Library Project and the National Center for School and College Television, an advisory board with an interlocking membership was formed. The National Center, through this board, will review, acquire, and disseminate completed instructional television (ITV)…

In early 1985, one of the new television channels resulting from the expansion of the Fort Smith TV Cable Company was allocated to Westark Community College (WCC). In July, a task force was appointed to develop recommendations regarding programming, policies, staffing, equipment, physical location, and organizational location. This report presents…