Does the modality of instructional messages affect learning? How does it affect different media? In this paper, I offer an answer to these questions by first proposing a theoretical framework from which effective instructional methods can be derived. Then, I report a set of studies where one method, the modality principle, was tested across…

Background: Adaptation to learning styles has been proposed to enhance learning. Objective: We hypothesized that learners with sensing learning style would perform better using a problem-first instructional method while intuitive learners would do better using an information-first method. Design: Randomized, controlled, crossover trial. Setting:…

A bibliography prepared by the Michigan Association for Media in Education Special Events and Celebrations Committee to provide an introductory list of media related to the Bicentennial. (Author/HB)

As we experiment with uses of technology, we must resist a simplistic view of the venture. Technologies are more than means to ends. They change our goals, for they change our very natures as organisms. It is believed that educators cannot refrain from extensive technological innovation. In doing so, however, they must sensitize themselves to the…

Forty-eight reports published between 1962 and 1969 are presented in this unannotated bibliography. These reports were selected for the use of the Commission on Instructional Technology in its examination of the conditions, requirements, and variables affecting the quality of complex learning mediated by instructional television systems. (EM 007…

This coloring book is designed to be used in conjunction with the Kindergarten career curriculum guide (CE 001 008). (Author/DS)

A discussion of the elements of good spoken narration for media presentations. (HB)

Procedures for producing photograms, an image produced when an object is placed on photographic paper and exposed to light for a few seconds, is presented. (HB)

A description of the flexibility, access and resolution, instructional adaptability, and costs of videodiscs. (KP)

Leaders in AECT and the media professions respond to questions posed by Previews as a way of elucidating the issues that will be discussed at the 1974 AECT Annual Convention. (Author/JB)

A discussion of the concern with hardware of Britain's Schools Council, an organization whose purpose is to bring educational information to teachers throughout the country. (AK)