The Latin American Institute for Educational Communication (ILCE) is a multi-national organization which aims to improve instruction through the development of educational media. ILCE's development, organization and operation are discussed. (Author)

Article gives a broad overview of the development of the National Film Board of Canada as a production and distribution agency. (Author/HB)

Concludes that combined audiovisual presentations were significantly superior to either audio or visual presentations of information, thus confirming the validity of the Cue Summation Theory. (RB)

The copyright issue and its ramifications for libraries are discussed. The article is broken down into six sections: general review; full-size copying; microform materials; microform equipment; audiovision and facsimile transmission; and, publications, research and professional activities. (176 references) (SM)

Suggestions for preparing tapes to be exchanged with students going to school in other countries. (LS)

The project director describes a three year trial program aimed at training vocational students to be audiovisual technicians. (LS)

Examined subjects' causal attributions of counselor behavior and ratings of counselor characteristics as affected by counseling analogue methodologies. Quasi-analogue subjects tended to rate counselors more positively than did audiovisual analogue subjects. Audiovisual subjects who saw only the counselor tended to rate counselors more positively…

Examined the effectiveness of repertory grids in assessing cognitive complexity as a correlate of creativity. Literary personnel and audiovisual representatives completed grids. Significant differences were found between creative writers and their literary controls; the grids failed to discriminate between greater and lesser creativity in the…

This essay examines the relationship between learning and communication and clarifies the conditions under which media could be used in schools to enhance learning. Learning situations relevant to the school's use of media, the role of communications in learning, and consequences of the classroom use of media are discussed. (RAO)

Discusses design and development issues in creating an interactive Web site for the field of communication disorders. Describes Vocaldevelopment.com, an interactive Web site that provides students, professionals, and parents with audio-recordings of infant vocalizations and information regarding intervention practices for infants and toddlers with…

Discusses advantages and disadvantages of audioconferencing for professional development; recommends basing technology choice on curriculum and provides a checklist of criteria. Describes an audio workshop on learning disabilities, outlining principles of good practice, guidelines for site coordinators, and participant handouts. (SK)

The University of Wyoming uses two-way audio teleconferencing to deliver instruction to distant learners. The design of telecourses follows five stages: faculty recruitment, precourse discussions with the course coordinator, faculty workshop, small-group instructional diagnosis for midcourse feedback, and final course evaluation. (SK)

Discussion of critical thinking in distance education focuses on a study that investigated graduate students' satisfaction and perception of opportunities for critical thinking in distance education courses that utilized a two-way audio and video system. Results show students had positive perceptions of the interactive technology, their…

Intended to promote the effective use of captioned media in the education of hearing impaired students, the manual contains theoretical and historical background information about captioning, illuminates major issues in the field of captioning (e.g., edited versus verbatim captioning and the need to teach caption-reading skills), and offers…