The four projects described here, a selection of those funded by the Annenberg/CPB Project, focus on the use of telecommunication and information technologies as tools for teaching in higher education. All are written by people directly involved in the projects described. The introductory section, "Overview: Issues in Educational Telecommunications," written by the editors of this report, summarizes some of the issues that the telecommunication and information technologies pose for higher education. The projects described are: (1) a technology demonstration project conducted by Brown University's Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship that introduces networked workstations into two Brown courses; (2) six introductory-level college science lessons, developed by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, that use a range of videographic combinations to provide technology-based alternatives to traditional laboratory activities; (3) a television-based, freshman physics course, developed by the California Institute of Technology, that combines a historical perspective with a grounding in calculus and animation to help students visualize abstract concepts; and (4) a study conducted by Research Communications, Ltd., that determined how college students actually used and assessed television-based courses and documented the rigorous intellectual demands they place on students. The final section, "Technology for Learning," provides an overview of applications of the technologies in higher education, connecting the work of the Annenberg/CPB Project to broad developments in the field. (EDS)