This study was undertaken with an aim to understand whether the effective use of the blackboard, one of the teaching aids utilized by Anadolu University's distance learning program in the e-television Open Classroom, has a positive effect on focus and concentration. Gagne's Theory of Instruction was utilized during this research. Knowledge of the…

This paper reports the results of a pilot in-service teacher training program undertaken in China from 2001 to 2004. Upon completion, the in-service teachers were awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree (non-honor) specializing in English Language Education. Many interesting findings resulted from this pilot program. By integrating low- and…

Five years ago, the TI-IN Network launched the first private long-distance interactive television network. Via satellite, it now beams live televised interactive courses taught by master teachers to thousands of high school students scattered across 29 states. Begun as a public and private joint venture with the Education Service Center Region 20…

Since the inception of instructional television (ITV) in the 1950s and 1960s, public broadcasting has been a valued source of quality video resources for the nation's classrooms. From the early days of "television teachers," whose expertise could be broadcast across wide geographical areas, to today's digital video delivery, public television…

Two-way interactive television (ITV) can broaden the variety of instructional programs available to students, ease the logistical problems of teacher inservice, provide new services to community members, and sometimes be a magnet for the collaboration of business and education. This special report, third in a series, examines the technology,…

Describes the Education Network of Maine, an interactive television system which uses one-way video and two-way audio to provide an interactive connection between the seven campuses of the University of Maine. Highlights ways of personalizing distance learning instruction, strategies for increasing student-teacher interaction, and the value of…

This guide is aimed at those who wish to teach with interactive television, defined as a two-way interactive audio and video channel for use by local schools. The text is designed to help instructors understand how to use the medium for distance education. The document examines how television works in both the audio and video components, and hints…

Televised continuing education provides an opportunity for educational institutions to expand their borders, to gain new students and to meet the needs of prospective students unable to conform to the time and space demands of traditional education. As American society ages, increasing numbers of non-residential (non-campus) students are seeking…

Classroom observation data were collected from 32 presentations by 7 professors in the College of Medicine at Texas A&M University over the course of 9 months for a study of the potential of two-way television as an instructional medium. Half of the observations were made from two-way television mediated lessons transmitted from the Veterans…

The development of interactive television instruction for distant learners involves nine sequential steps such as gaining attention, eliciting performance, and enhancing retention and transfer. Visual materials should be used to maintain interest and illustrate key concepts and relationships, and appropriate interactive techniques should be used…

Finds that interactive television instructors' perceptions of students' nonverbal responses are positively related to their impressions of students, their perceptions of teaching effectiveness and satisfaction, perceptions of teacher-student interpersonal relationships, and preference for teaching in the interactive television classroom; these…

This report describes two-way interactive television and its use by Minnesota's elementary and secondary schools, and discusses the potential of two-way interactive television systems for education in the next decade. While the report describes a diversity of current uses of two-way interactive television, it is argued that these applications by…

Learning by television is not a new phenomenon and, as an educational medium, it has gone through some severe growing pains. Unfortunately, while advances in technologies (cable, home recorders, satellites, teleconferencing) have contributed to an increase in the number of telecourses since the mid-1970s, faculty are often unprepared to teach…

Describes an interactive television program in which one Spanish teacher reached 3,959 elementary school students at nine different sites through the use of studio and classroom cameras and televisions. (Author/CB)

The purpose of this report is to provide both formative and summative results concerning the 1990 academic year operation of the Eastern Iowa Community College District's (EICCD) Televised Interactive Education (TIE) system. The TIE system is composed of a two-way microwave connection whereby two colleges and one university are able to produce and…