In early 1985, one of the new television channels resulting from the expansion of the Fort Smith TV Cable Company was allocated to Westark Community College (WCC). In July, a task force was appointed to develop recommendations regarding programming, policies, staffing, equipment, physical location, and organizational location. This report presents…

Presented is first of a two-part study that reports on the ways that some colleges are forming consortia of producers of telecourses. The nature of the consortia, their products, production concerns, and some leaders in the field, such as Miami-Dade Community College and Dallas County Community College District, are discussed. (JMD)

This report chronicles the six-year growth (1972-1978) of Dallas County Community College District's (DCCCD) Instructional Television program (ITV), explaining the design, production, implementation, components, and evaluation of the telecourses within the program. It also includes discussions of local and national distribution of courses,…

A review of literature germane to the subject helps provide an introduction to this study whose object is to identify the trends and practices that have occurred in television teaching of music from the late 1940's to the present. Other purposes of the study are to categorize and analyze the content and developing program formats of current…