Minnesota used telelecture for 59 meetings, reaching 296 groups in 35 counties. Each call was a conference call and each receiving station had a Dukane unit enabling an audience of up to 200 to hear well. (EB)

Purpose was to find a less expensive way to offer a television course consistent with a minimum standard of academic creditability and student acceptance. Used various communications media. (RB)

Describes the bilingual programs of the Ontario Educational Broadcasting Office (OTEO), in particular the French as a second language series, its history, and its innovative methods. These series have included courses for children, adolescents, and adults supplemented by publications, students telephone monitoring, and weekly workshops. (MES)

This paper reviews the use of different audio-visual media in distance education, including terrestrial broadcasting, cable satellite, videocassettes, audiocassettes, telephone teaching, viewdata, teletext, microcomputers, and interactive video. Trends in distance education are also summarized and related to trends in media technology development.…

This conference report is the ninth in an annual series. The theme of the 1975 international conference was continuous education, the provision of education for individuals at any time in their lives when they think it beneficial. The text consists of 27 papers that address the continuous education theme, educational media related to the theme, or…

UNIQUE FEATURES AND FLOOR PLANS OF FUNCTIONALLY DESIGNED CORPORATE TRAINING CENTERS ARE DESICRIBED. THE TRAVELERS EDUCATION CENTER HAS SIMPLY DESIGNED ROOMS AND FEW AUDIOVISUAL AIDS (AV). BUTLER MANUFACTURING HAS ITS STUDY CENTER IN A WING OF A MOTEL WHICH IS CONVENIENT TO THE GENERAL OFFICES AND DOWNTOWN AREA. SINCE COMPANY PERSONNEL USE THE…

The annotated bibliography listing 332 documents with abstracts on training methodology contains selected references on the media aspects of training: audiovisual theory and methods, aids, facilities, and equipment. Most items were published from January 1960 to March 1968. Specifically, the bibliography includes such media as television,…

A total of 332 annotated references pertaining to media aspects of training are organized under the following headings: (1) Audiovisual Theory and Research, (2) Audiovisual Methods (General), (3) Audiovisual Equipment (General), (4) Computers in Instruction, (5) Television Instruction, (6) Videotape Recordings, (7) Television Facilities, (8) Radio…

A collection of 332 abstracts, resumes, and annotations of selected documents on audiovisual theory and methods, aids, facilities, and equipment, this publication is the fourth part of a bibliography on training methodology within a larger series on mental health inservice training and training methodology. Television instruction and equipment,…

Resulting from a 1980 workshop and a survey of 12 selected distance learning systems (or correspondence study programs), this paper had four aims: (1) to provide a framework to describe distance learning systems using audiovisual media and to locate the 12 surveyed institutions within that framework, (2) to identify common problem areas in the…

Seven years' experience in the utilization of instructional technology by the University of Wisconsin for the continuing education of health care personnel is reviewed. During the period 1965-1972 doctors and allied support professionals were given access to telephone conferences, a dial access library, films, tape/slide programs and television. A…

This report familiarizes educators with the general nature of various electronic teaching systems. The material is organized into major chapters on audio equipment, visual display equipment, television teaching systems, computer assisted instruction, and student response systems. Other chapters describe several systems and approximate equipment…

This issue contains the following articles: "Behaviorist and Rationalist Psychology and Language Teaching Theory," by William Gallagher; "TESL and Speech Communication," by Kay M. Yamada; "More on Using a Telephone Directory to Teach English as a Second language," by Betty M. Crethar; and "Supplementation of Opposites in Simple Predicate…