Obstacles to effective school television can be divided into technical, economic and pedagogic obstacles. Most of these can be overcome with appropriate action. (STS)

This study reports on progress in predicting overall completion rates for various open learning courses, given the demographic, curricular, and administrative conditions prevailing at the City Colleges of Chicago. (Author)

A second and long-range look at public broadcasting since the Carnegie Commission's report on educational television in 1967. (DAG)

The emerging currents of theoretical research in ETV and some implications for the producer. (Author)

Description of the process through which the Kentucky Educational Television designed and developed a television based instructional series to prepare adults for the GED high school equivalency certificate examination. (Author/STS)

Gives a status report on the in-school visits made by British educational television specialists to determine the needs of the schools they serve. (JY)

The three National Television Networks in the United Kingdom are discussed as educational resources for general viewers, viewers attending educational institutions, and unaffiliated adult students. (STS)

Assertions that television (Sesame Street in particular) produces hyperactivity, impulsivity, disorganized behavior, and shortened attention spans in pre-school children were investigated. No evidence was found that rapid television pacing has an immediate negative impact on behavior of preschool children. (Author/STS)

Identifies the various uses video tapes in secondary social studies classes with particular emphasis on United States History. Provides teaching suggestions for using the 3 hour ABC television show "45/85," which looked at the global history of the past 45 years from the viewpoint of the United States and Soviet Union. (JDH)

Recent advances in technology and the increased availability of videotape equipment in schools have raised innumerable questions about a teacher's right to tape television programs "off the air". A series of guidelines that have evolved from judicial findings in copyright cases are discussed. (Author/RK)

Adult learners differ from their younger counterparts in a number of ways. Of great importance to continuing education efforts is the fact that they are highly receptive to the appropriate use of educational technology. (Author)

In order to effectively use National Instructional Television's art series, Images and Things, there are two items which are of great help for setting the cogs and wheels in motion: NIT's Guide and Program Notes and the Learning Resource Kit. Article described both methods for improving instruction. (Author/RK)

The instructional television system in Washington County, Maryland has perhaps the longest continuous history of any ITV project in the world. This paper presents a detailed analysis of actual project costs, and utilization over time, with comparisons to ITV systems in other countries and with traditional instruction. (BD)