The current practice of Bolton College of Education, its relationship with other departments, problems of storage and retrieval are described and related to possible future developments. (Author)

CHARACTERISTICS OF 350 EDUCATIONAL AUDIO TAPE LIBRARIES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, EDUCATIONAL RADIO STATIONS, AND OTHER FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY WERE COMPILED BY TWO QUESTIONNAIRES AND VISITS TO SELECTED LIBRARIES. PERCENTAGE DATA WAS GATHERED ON TAPE ACQUISITION AND EVALUATION, CATALOGING, FINANCING, EQUIPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT, AND…

This manual is designed to assist students in a course on media in instruction and management. Units are included on: (1) still picture projection; (2) audio media; (3) motion picture projection; (4) print media, duplication, and displays; (5) selection of appropriate instructional materials; and (6) selecting appropriate media. Each unit includes…

To investigate impaired residual disciminiation for low-frequency formants and its influence on electronic compensation effectiveness, evaluations were made on impaired discrimination for speech formants, synthetic enhancement of consonants, wearable transposer aids, and a speech perception survey. Results showed that certain persons with severe…

The author describes his work The University of London Goldsmith's College, the Television Research and Training Unit, and the Hertfordshire (England) television experiment. He presents a detailed explanation of a portable "mini-studio" that he designed to allow a teacher with the aid of an assistant to control the whole televising…

A questionnaire, sent to each of the 139 members of the National Consortium for Computer-Based Music Instruction identifying the systems, terminals, and peripheral equipment available to them and discussing their future hardware needs, is reviewed. (RAO)

Consists of a detailed description of reel-to-reel tape recorders and their applications in second language instruction. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

An inexpensive FM amplification system was developed to enhance auditory learning in classrooms for the hearing impaired. Evaluation indicated that the system equalizes the sound pressure level throughout the room, with the increased sound pressure level falling in the range of 70 to 73 decibels. (Author/DB)

Discusses the theory behind the system of the compact disc (encoding process, decoding system), its potential for growth, and its possible impact on the way libraries handle sound recordings. Guidelines for purchase of compact disc equipment are given. A comparison of compact discs and long-playing records is appended. (37 references) (EJS)

The equipment and use of language laboratories are described, and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Comparisons are made between the use of a language laboratory and the use of tape recorders. (RM)

The audio-tutorial method of instruction has been used in a freshman biology course at the University of North Dakota since 1966. It seems to be as effective as the conventional method, if achievement is the only consideration, but more significant if other implications are assessed. (LBH)

The main focus of this document is on audioconferencing, which in distance education contexts provides "virtual" interaction equivalent in quality to face-to-face, conventional classroom interaction. The applications of audiotape and audio broadcast are covered only briefly. Discussion first includes reasons for using audioconferencing…

Describes an innovative teaching system in which the student becomes his own teacher. (RK)