The Anik-B project is part of the two-year communications experiments for which the Anik-B satellite is being used. The project was designed to explore the possibilities of using Interactive Instructional Television (IITV) to provide distance postsecondary education for people living in widely scattered and sometimes inaccessible areas of British…

Evaluates user response to the TI-IN Network's live interactive television courses for high school students and staff development in rural or small schools. Reports favorable responses from school principals and students but finds that students would prefer regular classroom instruction if available. (SKW)

Describes the German by Satellite program broadcast by Oklahoma State University to small rural high schools. Outlines school costs for program participation and equipment purchases. Lists program strengths and weaknesses identified in a survey of administrators in 30 participating schools. (SV)

An evaluative questionnaire completed by 30 high school principals and 159 high school students who used the TI-IN Network demonstrated the advantages of interactive satellite television instruction for rural and small schools. The study found that a large number of subscribers to TI-IN were small rural high schools whose principals stated that…

The TI-IN Network is an interactive, satellite-based educational system offering a technological alternative to face-to-face classroom instruction. Developed through a cooperative venture between private enterprise and public education agencies, the TI-IN Network offers a total systems approach by providing the entire programming and hardware…

The paper details development, implementation, and user research/evaluation of TI-IN Network, Inc., the first private, interactive satellite based educational system in the United States developed for public schools and offering a total systems approach by providing both user technology and a wide range of course offerings. An overview of specific…