Applying Planning Programming Budgeting Systems (PPBS) to education, particularly to school media programs, is not essentially different from PPBS in the Pentagon. (Author)

Author argues that television for education gives top value for the money, plus if offers many advantages as an instructional medium. (HB)

Authors describe how a four and one-half minute animated film, The Hare and the Tortoise, was made at the Educational Mass Media Centre, Ethiopia. (HB)

The financial crunch hit the University of Minnesota after the 1971 legislative session, which appropriated for the 1971-72 and 1972-73 fiscal years and began an attempt at a new kind of budget planning process. It was a unique process in the institutional review of programs and in the setting of priorities for future growth and direction. There…

The Teacher Corps has been directed to put a greater focus on demonstration, documentation, institutionalization, and dissemination of the results of Teacher Corps projects. This report deals with program policy alternatives for improving the dissemination of project-developed products, practices, and processes to educational agencies and…

This document reports on the formalization of objectives, progress, and priorities of the five-year-plan of the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Oklahoma. The document presents a rationale and criteria for program planning based on the three major national conferences of the Speech Communication Association--The Wingspread…

An undergraduate core course covering the entire range of communication studies was content analyzed, scripted, and audiotaped for broadcast in 20 half-hour segments. The formats of the tapes included interviews, panel discussions, expository lectures, fabled narratives, and radio drama. An evaluation of the audiotaped materials was conducted by…

The items in this report were drawn from the 1982 meeting of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), which had two objectives: to elaborate those criteria and procedures that should govern the selection of communication projects to be implemented by the program, and to approve and…

This report clarifies pilot efforts which address new problem areas in educational needs. The project was initiated to determine the specific competencies essential to the management of educational projects in research and development. The goals of the project were to establish a profile of identified competencies for use in planning the content…

In order for the potential of cable television to be applied for educational benefit, educators must effectively communicate their priorities and needs to both licensing authorities and cable companies. This guide familiarizes educators and school committees with their options and prepares them to take part in local franchise negotiations. It…

This directory lists those American teacher centers that are in touch with the Teachers' Centers Exchange. All 116 entries in the directory are written in a common format. This is intended to help readers make comparisons and select individual ideas rather than to adopt whole models. Each listing is headed by the name, address, and phone number of…