Compiled from a computerized data base of over 12,000 entries at the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM), this index is a bibliographical guide to commercially produced educational videotapes. A first section, a subject guide to videotapes, presents entries by subject categories used in media producers' and educational…

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) during its period of monopoly television, the coming of ITV (independent television), the reaction and adaptation of the BBC to a competitive situation, and the effect on British television programing are the subjects of this history of British television. (RH)

The director of the inter-university research unit in Great Britain argues that the potential of television is still unrealized in higher education. (Editor)

Author argues that the proposed fourth television channel in Britain should be taken from the moguls and made over to education, including an Open School. (Editor/RY)

Describes television programs broadcast in the Netherlands and West Germany which explain what chemistry is all about. Both programs, planned under the direction of trained chemists, comprise 13 half-hour presentations and include segments on energy, polymers, chemical processes, the chemistry of life, atomic and molecular chemistry, and chemistry…

THE TELEVISION CAMERA IS A MEANS OF EXTENDING THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS PER TEACHER, AND IT IS AN INVALUABLE VISUAL ASSET. IT RELIES ON VISUAL AIDS PRODUCED BY THE INSTRUCTOR, AND CAN EASILY BE MOUNTED ON A DEMONSTRATION TABLE WITH PROPER EQUIPMENT AND A SMALL MONITOR. ALTHOUGH THE INSTRUCTOR CANNOT DISPLAY MUCH MATERIAL SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DEMONSTRATE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF USING DIGITAL COMPUTER METHODS TO ESTABLISH AN ULTRAHIGH FREQUENCY UHF ASSIGNMENT PLAN. THE STUDY FOLLOWS UP A PREVIOUS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS (NAEB) SURVEY WHICH INDICATED THE NEED FOR FUTURE EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION CHANNELS BEYOND THOSE…

THIS REPORT REVIEWED THE RESEARCH CONDUCTED, 1960-61, IN METROPOLITAN BOSTON ON THE AUDIENCE OF AN EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION STATION. THE DESIGN OF THE STUDY WAS A TWO-WAVE SURVEY--THE FIRST WAVE BY 9,140 TELEPHONE CALLS IN EARLY 1960, AND THE SECOND WAVE 1 YEAR LATER BY PERSONAL INTERVIEWS WITH SOME OF THE SAME PEOPLE. THE INTEREST IN THE PERSONAL…

THE BENEFITS OF MASTER ANTENNA TELEVISION SYSTEMS (HAVING CENTRAL ANTENNA AND AMPLIFIERS WITH CABLE CONNECTIONS TO CLASSROOM) ARE DISCUSSED WITH RESPECT TO OTHER SYSTEMS OF CLASSROOM TELEVISION. INCLUDED ARE COST CONSIDERATIONS, NEED DETERMINATION, SCHOOL DESIGN, UTILIZATION OF EXISTING EQUIPMENT, AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS. AN EXTENSIVE ILLUSTRATED…

This collection of six essays on ITV (Instructional Television), especially as it concerns physical education, acquaints physical educators who want to produce and use ITV in their classrooms with a step-by-step analysis of the process. The essays cover production of the television series, evaluation methods and their utilization, utilization of…

All children today live in an aural and visual world--yet virtually every education program in the country is based on the print world of 50 years ago. Television must be used to provide motivation for children, particularly disadvantaged children, which print cannot--it must provide a socializing situation, make the real world a part of the…

"Sesame Street" has proved to be a successful attempt to use the best of contemporary television entertainment techniques to produce a daily hour-long educational television directed to the preschool population. The success is the result of the leadership of the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) approach to producing the show. Some of…

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in order to obtain feedback about its programming, conducted an extensive survey of PBS television station managers which secured information about programming, system use and development, and PBS departmental evaluation. The general consensus was that programs were better balanced and developed than station…