Intended primarily as a college text for media specialists, librarians, audiovisual specialists, and others who will assume positions of leadership in the field of educational media, this book begins with an analysis of the place of the media program in the total educational system--its relationship to instructional development and the nature and…

The term "media," as employed here, refers to printed and audiovisual forms of communication and their accompanying technology. A representative list of printed materials might include books, periodicals, catalogs, and printed programmed materials. Audiovisual materials include films and filmstrips, recordings, slides, graphic materials,…

A discussion of the need for architects and school planners to design buildings which will allow for the optimization of the new instructional technology. (LS)

The communications center serves to produce teacher-constructed mediated materials; to distribute materials by dial access video and audio information retrieval, closed circuit television and portable equipment; and as an instructional center. (NH)

In this literature review, the author discusses the impact of instructional technology on community college education; describes the various uses of learning resources centers, educational television, and educational research and development; and provides an extensive bibliography of documents, books, and monographs relating to instructional…

The flexibility of individualized instruction has permitted experimentation with an almost unlimited number of learning resources. One of the most useful of these is the remote access information system. (NH)

This final report presents the chronology of planning and operating a Title III grant. The following activities in the Abington School District, Abington, Pennsylvania, were financed in part by the Title III grant: (1) inservice training--teachers learned new approaches and techniques for individualizing instruction involving the use of different…

This document contains three reports. The first, "What Is Mediated Instruction?," discusses programs of media services--their goals, how they operate, and their functions, and describes the Learning Resources Center at Los Angeles City College (LACC), which emphasizes self-paced individualized instruction and which utilizes a new…

A selection of presentations made during the twenty-fifth Educational Communications Convocation is included in this summary. Some 1700 educators concerned with innovation in educational communications and technology participated; presentations took the form of research reports and demonstrations on developments and techniques of interest to…

The "modern school" is sensitive to change, aggressive in its employment of instructional technology, yet totally responsive to and concerned about the individual. Student-centered learning can flourish through use of a systems approach, which can also move media and materials from their present peripheral role in education to an integral position…

This sourcebook indicates the range of instructional technology currently being used in community colleges. Issues discussed are: overcoming the barriers to faculty involvement by organizing the staff and creating an effective reward system for instructional development; how a learning resources center can assist instructors in applying…

This is the third revision of a primer on all aspects of educational technology. It offers an authoritative overview of approaches and interpretations as well as detailed descriptions of specific techniques. Topics covered include: the nature of educational technology; basic educational strategies such as the teacher/institution-centered approach…