Two recent projects using retrieval television, which permits teachers to request program transmissions for individual classrooms, are compared. Many dimensions of student and teacher reaction to retrieval television are reported for the Ottawa Project. These results and the expense and/or channel restrictions of retrieval television lead to the…

Describes a project designed to determine the instructional effectiveness of Sesame Street French segments with elementary school children and to determine teacher interest in creating their own programs from available segments. Results indicate students learned words and phrases that would not have been learned otherwise. Fourteen references are…

Description of the Tele-Universite, a distance teaching institution which is part of the Universite du Quebec network, includes course development, media uses, curriculum, administrative structure, and a student profile. Eleven references are provided. (MBR)