Designed to aid local educators as they formulate plans to use distance learning as a strategy for providing effective educational experiences, this resource guide provides an introduction to telecommunication-based distance education technologies and guidelines for their implementation. The first of six sections discusses the rationale for…

Defining a telecourse as a series of lessons presented through the medium of television, this paper outlines four uses of telecourses and describes three different options for telecourse design: (1) use of commercially-available materials; (2) use of professor-developed materials; and (3) a combination of the two. Focusing on the…

The need for and uses of high technology delivery systems in education are discussed in this paper with respect to the community college level. After part I introduces the topic, part II links the need for new technology in education to the change in the nature of knowledge from a small, relatively static corpus to a large and continually changing…

Chattanooga State Technical Community College (CSTCC), in Tennessee, offers distance learning courses through Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) broadcast, through broadcasts of a local public television affiliate station, and through video cassette checkout/mailout. By the end of fiscal year 1991-92, over 2,500 students had enrolled in…