A look at The London Education Classification, based on facet analysis, and has also been used as the basis for a thesaurus which was the English contribution to the multilingual thesaurus compiled for the EUDISED project of the Council of Europe. (Author)

A critique of "Programmed Instruction 1954-1974," by James Hartley. (Author)

The development of Local Radio is traced from the case put by the BBC to the Pilkington Committee at the opening of the first twenty of the proposed forty stations. (Author)

Article discusses the growth, development and use of television in Zambia's educational system. The author points out some of the difficulties and shortcomings in the use of television and some recommendations for future use. (Author)

AGL is a system for group management training that operates without the direct intervention of an instructor. This article discusses how the "educational mix" for the AGL system was developed. (Author/STS)

This paper describes the current status of computer assisted instruction at the Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, as well as several ongoing projects. Attention is directed to the problems that computer assisted instruction can resolve as well as to the problems inherent in the system itself. (Author/STS)

An outline of the BBC's provision of television for British schools describing the constitution and function of the School Broadcasting Council and the role of the BBC School Television Department. (Author)

Summarizes the basic concepts and principles of visual literacty, sketches the technocultural background in which it is founded, and suggests some ideas about how it might be put into practice by educators. (Author/JEG)

Five fundamental manifestations of technology for educational change are examined with particular reference to Canadian activities. These foci are: psychotechnology, information and communications technology, organizational technology, cybernetic systems technology and educational planning. Each is vitally concerned with the optimal organization…

Article describes the aims and objectives of the Flintshire Educational Technology Centre, the operation, facilities and the staffing. (Author)

This paper describes a method of organizing subject matter and/or skills into flexible units of instruction using a competency chart approach. The competency chart allows the instructor to assess the entry competence of learners and to determine specific instructional needs. Media education for teachers is the subject focus of this article.…

Article introduces the educational services of the BBC as integrated media for learning. Television is considered one of the component parts of a complex learning system. Reference is made to the role of television in the Open University, and to the problems of adult education in an open society. Instances are given of the difficulties of…

Summarizes an information-processing model of clinical reasoning and outlines some of its applications in medical education programs that use simulated cases to provide experience in blending clinical knowledge and problem-solving strategies. (Author/JD)

Discusses the development of a minicourse approach in which three aspects of design and implementation are based on educational technology: a systems approach to curriculum development, application of behavioral theory, and stimulus response chains which are organized as linear sequences of input-process-output cycles linked by feedback loops.…