Procedural knowledge is often transferred by spoken 'how-to' instructions delivered with simultaneous hands-on demonstration. As reflected by the popularity of YouTube instructional videos, such spoken texts have become a common way to learn how to learn a wide range of things. Surprisingly, there is a lack of research concerned with salient…

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…

In ITV the teacher is the producer of the instructional program, but it is the medium that does the teaching. For teachers familiar with the learning process but unskilled in the art of television production and communication, some very instructive pointers are offered. (LS)

A brief description of how the role of the studio teacher continues to be redefined.'' (Editor/AK)

Suggestions for improving what the authors feel to be a stagnating medium: instructional television. (LS)

Instructions on how to help teachers put together good, instructive television lessons. (Author/HB)

Some comments on the quality of instructional television presentations and on the need for teachers to use the medium creatively. (LS)

A SEMINAR WAS HELD TO CONSIDER THE USES OF TELEVISION IN EDUCATION TO ASSESS PRESENT KNOWLEDGE IN THIS CONNECTION, AND TO IDENTIFY AREAS NEEDING STUDY AND RESEARCH. WHILE NO ONE COMBINATION OF PRACTICES WAS RECOMMENDED AS A MODEL IN THE APPLICATION OF TELEVISION TO THE VARIED PURPOSES OF EDUCATION, NEEDS, SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES, AND TECHNIQUES IN…

An excerpt from "Agreement" 1973-1975, this report is an outline of the two-year agreement between the Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 508, County of Cook and State of Illinois, and the Cook County Teachers Union, on compensation for TV teaching. (Author/SGM)

The instructional television system in Washington County, Maryland has perhaps the longest continuous history of any ITV project in the world. This paper presents a detailed analysis of actual project costs, and utilization over time, with comparisons to ITV systems in other countries and with traditional instruction. (BD)