Describes cable television tutoring systems presently in use by and for students and teachers in various schools, including prepackaged and self-made educational programming. Provides information on negotiating a cable franchise and on setting up a nonprofit management access corporation. (TE)

A section on technological delivery systems, presented as part of the second Australian National Workshop on Distance Education (Perth, 1983), contains four papers on using technological resources to provide educational services to persons in isolated locations. The first paper, by Don Kennedy, covers the use of satellite broadcasting of course…

Educational television has made great strides in the five years which have elapsed since the Federal Communications Commission set aside television channels for the exclusive use of education. Such stations are located in 29 communities of the United States, representing large cities, university centers and, in several instances, serving entire…