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Download full textOswald, Patricia A. – 1996
To help meet the needs of adult students who find it difficult to attend classes regularly on campus, New York's Iona College developed video distance learning courses in psychology that combine independent reading, guided study, video program viewing, and faculty mentoring to provide a challenging learning experience for students. Video courses…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Learning, Course Content, Course Organization
Platten, Marvin R.; Barker, Bruce O. – 1987
The Texas Interactive Instructional Network (TI-IN), a private satellite system that provides one-way video and two-way audio communication, was used for a two-year pilot project which was conducted to determine if satellite instruction could be used successfully to share educational resources among institutions. Models of Teaching, a graduate…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Course Content, Distance Education, Education Majors
Peer reviewedOlivier, A. – Gifted International, 1987
A postgraduate, teletuition course for educators of gifted children offered by the University of South Africa is described. Course contents include four modules: (1) categories of giftedness; (2) identification; (3) guidance/counseling and communication; and (4) teaching the gifted child. Two practical sessions comprising one-week workshops are…
Descriptors: Counseling, Course Content, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Stover, Harryette – 1985
The most significant factor in developing the video design of a telecourse must always be the needs of the students who will view the program. In developing videotapes for a writing telecourse at a Texas community college, the instructors attempted to design programs to meet the special cognitive and affective needs of its nontraditional audience.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Course Content, Higher Education
Brown, Lawrence A. – 1975
The television component of each of the four courses offered to date by the Universtiy of Mid-America and the State University of Nebraska is by design an important instructional element of the course. Enrollees in the courses were surveyed for their opinions. Generally the course television components have been considered to be both helpful and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Content, Educational Objectives, Educational Television
Brown, Lawrence A. – 1975
Accounting I, a multimedia course, was the first course produced by the University of Mid-America, and was offered publicly for the first time by the State University of Nebraska in October 1974. A brief overview of this first offering includes: (1) a description of its development; (2) details of its initial offering, such as registration…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accounting, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Brown, Lawrence A. – 1975
A brief overview is given of the State University of Nebraska's second offering of the multimedia course, Accounting I, in March 1975. Document HE 010 419 provides a description of the course and its components. The present report includes: (1) details relating to the second offering; (2) a profile of enrollees; (3) enrollee achievement; (4)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accounting, Course Content, Course Evaluation
