EXAMPLES OF SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS FROM RESEARCH STUDIES OF LEARNING FROM MEDIA WERE CITED THAT HAVE BEEN IGNORED OR OVERLOOKED BY PRODUCERS OF INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION. CAUSES FOR THESE GAPS BETWEEN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE WERE DISCUSSED, AND CERTAIN SOLUTIONS WERE OFFERED IN AN ATTEMPT TO ELIMINATE THE GAPS. THE AUTHOR URGED THAT ALL PRESENTLY…

EMPHASIS OF THIS TELECOURSE PROJECT WAS DIRECTED TOWARD AN EXAMINATION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF TELEVISED INSTRUCTION TO MEET EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AT THE JUNIOR COLLEGE LEVEL. EVIDENCE WAS SOUGHT ON THE NEED FOR INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION AT THE NONRESIDENT, COLLEGE-CREDIT LEVEL (ESPECIALLY FOR RECENT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES NOT ABLE TO ENROLL ON A COLLEGE…

The imaginative use of a videotape system can help students understand themselves and communicate with each other. Videotape permits the student to be both performer and part of the audience, either simultaneously through a tape monitor or sequentially through instant playback. Seeing himself objectively can improve the student's self-confidence.…

As soon as the educational objectives of a proposed Instructional Television System (ITV) have been determined, professional technical advice should be obtained. In planning a system, there are many choices possible between various television production systems, transmission systems, reception facilities, and video recorders. The system chosen…

Research findings, theories, and examples of the effectiveness of radio and television programs are organized to create a guide for analyzing their educational messages. It is demonstrated that radio and television programs are composed of a set of messages made up of more than one level of language, such as verbal (words), paraverbal (pitch,…

In order to learn more about the potential of television for teaching prosocial values, an experiment is described which will use as subjects preschool children attending nursery schools or day care centers. Brief videotapes, 15-20 minutes long, will be made from material taken primarily from Sesame Street. They will vary in the explicitness of…

An appendix to a staff paper on telecommunications in urban development, submitted to the President's Task Force on Communications Policy, describes possible uses of new communications technology in the ghetto. Television, the most widely spread and most promising medium, has potential for improving education, increasing community awareness, and…

A study by questionnaire attempted to identify the factors controlling the selection or non-selection of available resources in network-broadcast instructional television, and to identify the academic-administrative involvements of those officials--deans, chairmen, and teachers-making decisions on the use of instructional television. Those polled…

This book could be a useful supplement in any course dealing with television, such as mass media, communication, film, and humanities. The book is divided into six sections. "The Impact of Television" discusses the impact of television on society, the broadcast media, the Federal Communications Commission, public broadcasting, educational…

Written especially for those who want expert, indepth guidance on setting up a small-to-medium size television studio, this handbook is a detailed guide on the installation and maintenance of production facilities for cable, closed-circuit, instructional, and small broadcast television studios. Detailed discussions are included of studio pulse…

Examines the learners' mental models of television in actual media classroom activity by which knowledge was constructed. Findings revealed how media capabilities and the instructional designs that employ them interact with the learners and the task characteristics to influence the formation of the learners' mental models and their learning…

The Anik-B Project is part of the two-year communications experiments for which the Anik-B satellite is being used. The project was designed to explore the possibilities of using Interactive Instructional Television (IITV) to provide distance postsecondary education for people living in widely scattered and sometimes inaccessible areas of British…

THE BROAD STRUCTURE OF STUDIES IN THE USE OF EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOR MEETING THE GROWING NEEDS OF JUNIOR COLLEGE PROGRAMS IN THE STATE OF OREGON WAS DESCRIBED. THE TELEVISION COURSE OUTLINE WAS DESCRIBED AND REASONS GIVEN FOR STUDENT ENROLLMENT IN THE COLLEGE OF THE AIR PROGRAM. AN INDEPENDENT PROGRAM OF HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH INSTRUCTIONAL…

In journal format, the author's reactions to a sabbatical year tour of educational television installations around the world and in the United States are recorded. Visits to Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore are described. In part 2, similar visits to school systems in California, Arizona, Illinois,…

The Gaylord White Project, a pilot program in the use of television to promote the health and well-being of the elderly, used bi-directional cable television to deliver programs to the residents of a low-income, East Harlem housing project for the aged. For 15 months, health education and community information messages were delivered to…