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Ginsburg, Mark B.; Arias-Godinez, Beatriz – Comparative Education Review, 1984
A theoretical analysis of how nonformal education by radio represents a less expensive/more effective strategy for transmitting skills, knowledge, and values, increasingly likely to be adopted and directed toward adults in rural areas of developing countries. Illustrated with material from fieldwork in Huayacocotla, a village in Veracruz, Mexico.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Education, Community Study, Comparative Analysis
Elliott, Stanley F. – CORE, 1979
Topics include: history of correspondence education; description and evaluation of correspondence schools, courses, and students; accreditation; and links with educational radio and television. Journals, yearbooks, and annual reports which frequently cover the topic are also listed. (f=fiche numbers). (CP)
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Annotated Bibliographies, Correspondence Schools, Correspondence Study
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Sanderson, Heath – Education in Rural Australia, 1998
The Broken Hill School of the Air provides distance education to isolated rural students in the far west of New South Wales (Australia). Services include correspondence study, radio lessons, home visits, and minischool meetings. A student teacher describes his 10-week experience with Broken Hill, teaching 15 students in grade 5-6. (SV)
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, Distance Education, Educational Radio, Elementary Education
Mutanyatta, Johannes N. S. – 1992
This paper describes the characteristics of Botswana's remote area dwellers (RADs) and the government's related rural development policies. RADS live a nomadic lifestyle, live outside the traditional village structure far from basic services, rely heavily on hunting and gathering, have low levels of literacy and little access to education, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Correspondence Study, Distance Education
Tekin, Cengiz; And Others – 1990
This proposal begins with a discussion of technologies used by distance education programs to deliver instruction, including the use of video by the Open Education Faculty (OEF) at Anadolu University in Turkey. The first of five chapters discusses modes of communication that can be used in distance education together with their functions. Specific…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Distance Education, Educational Radio, Educational Resources
Perraton, Hilary; And Others – 1983
The five papers in this volume examine the methods, costs, and effects of traditional agricultural extension services and basic education and about the use of mass media for extension and education. The first paper, a literature review regarding the effectiveness of agricultural extension, reports that extension agents' studies of internal…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Education, Case Studies
Muller, Josef, Ed.; Dietrich, Anja, Ed. – 1989
This document contains a collection of literacy program evaluation instruments from developing countries, as well as several papers describing how to use evaluation instruments to assess various types of systems. The following titles (with author or country of origin) are contained in this collection: "Designing a System of Evaluation and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Developing Nations
Duby, Aliza – 1988
This review of the literature on educational radio covers reports on research from many areas of the world. Prepared as an internal report for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and Educational Radio and Television (ERTV), it was intended to provide a basis for both fruitful discussions and more specific and practical local…
Descriptors: Audiences, Distance Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Radio
Petersen, Allan L.; Berg, Ernest H. – 1981
In response to legislative mandate, a study was conducted in 1981 to determine the educational and fiscal effects of legislation authorizing independent study (IS) in California community colleges. Independent study was defined as learning undertaken by a student enrolled in a credit course without the immediate presence of the assigned…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Finance, Educational Radio
Berrigan, Frances; Gibson, Anne – 1977
In 1977, almost 60 percent of all Open University courses were using audio and visual media in combination: either sound broadcasting with visual materials or audio-vision with the sound distributed on cassette or discs. Research has shown that students prefer radio-vision to radio alone. It appears that future growth may be in the area of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Audiovisual Aids
Nohling, David L. – 1976
This guide contains administrator, teacher, and student materials for a college-level ethnic heritage course. The course content focuses on the significance of music as a powerful cultural expression of ethnic groups through student exploration of local radio programs and festivals, music of family and friends, and use of information from the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Education, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1958
A comparative study is presented from the results of a questionnaire on rural education submitted to 71 countries. Information is given on administrative organization, criteria used to determine rurality, rural-urban differences, special courses for rural areas, curricula for rural education, staff distribution and preparation, and centralization…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Administrative Organization, Centralization, Comparative Analysis
Federation of Rocky Mountain States, Inc., Denver, CO. – 1975
The Federation of Rocky Mountain States and the Satellite Technology Demonstration project (STD) have collaborated in an effort to provide low cost information delivery to rural areas of the Rockies. Though the goals and the financial support of this joint effort were initially confused, sites have now been selected, the communications technology…
Descriptors: Audiences, Career Education, Citizen Participation, Communications Satellites
Federation of Rocky Mountain States, Inc., Denver, CO. – 1975
The goal of the Satellite Technology Demonstration project (STD) was to show the feasibility of a satellite-based media system for isolated, rural populations and to test and evaluate user acceptance and the cost of various delivery modes using a variety of materials. The STD amalgamated the resources of government, health, education, and…
Descriptors: Audiences, Career Education, Citizen Participation, Communications Satellites
Frank, Theodore D. – 1976
This paper explored the question of the applicability of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act of 1972 to public broadcasting. Basically, those provisions require recipients of federal grants to use those funds in a non-discriminatory manner such that the benefit of the programs funded by the…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation
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