The use of digital and blended digital learning modes is becoming more popular in teaching practice at various levels of instruction. This article reports a case study with a strong experimental approach in which a digital learning object (DLO) was developed to assist in the pedagogical practice in higher education (in the audiovisual area). The…

This study interrogated the central theoretical statement that understanding and learning to apply the abstract concept of classical dramatic narrative structure can be addressed effectively through a useful audiovisual teaching method. The purpose of the study was to design an effective DVD teaching and learning aid, to justify the design through…

The authors examine all the possibilities for a media study. (MR)

Anyone who purchases, rents, programs or uses films in any way must have access to information about them, and must develop criteria for selecting the right film for the right place. This manual is intended to explain what evaluation is, how to go about it, and how to work with a committee or an organization in a program of evaluation. It defines…

The social and personal importance of recordings to teenagers merits special consideration.

A film exceptionally well-suited for a senior high school unit on romanticism" is reviewed. (Author/SP)

Examines the high cost of renting films for classroom use and study and offers alternatives available to many schools, including leasing and purchasing prints. (JMF)

Criteria for evaluating a film are provided with guidelines on how to use films. A list of 47 films is given. (MS)

A film list and addresses of film distributors are appended. (EJS)

Four short, inexpensive films used in conjunction with specific poems provide the basis for individual lessons or a single unit whose theme explicates man and his relationship to other men. "Two Castles," a simple film depicting the foolhardiness of pride is recommended for use in teaching an introductory unit on poetry. "The Wall," a film…

Film instruction has been distinctly marked by three major developments that have evolved over the past decade. First of all, a film genre has emerged which is relatively free of the old pedagogical emphasis. The attributes of film form and content that were once rejected by classroom teachers now have become the legitimate raw material for film…

Students find American History more interesting when they set out to make a movie of the gold rush. (GB)

Condensed from "The Journal of Higher Education, Volume 39 (October 1968), 388-94.

An overwhelming deterrent to the use of film in the classroom has been the inaccessibility of the films and the complicated projectors required to show them. Eight-millimeter film has the potential to lower the cost of films, making them more accessible, and to make showing them vastly simpler. This paper traces the development of 8mm film use in…