Describes individualized television instruction involving active student participation, where experiments on air breathing in fish and shoot growth were videotaped. Students collected data directly from the television screen. Student accuracy was found to be excellent; reactions to the medium were found to be apathetic. Reasons for apathy are…

This article furnishes statistical data from a survey of university language/learning laboratories. The nature of the facility, distribution of disciplines and technologies, supervisor information including academic rank, title, degree, sex, salary, and information about other employees in 89 universities are included. (CHK)

An educational research project at the Medical University of South Carolina is described that was undertaken to evaluate the efficiency of a new method for teaching core psychiatry to medical students. This method, the Psychiatry Learning System (PLS), is a multimedia, self-instructional course comprised of programmed text with videotaped clinical…

This paper describes how results of the Golden West College Speech Department's program review led to the alignment of performance-based communication prerequisite and outcome expectations for: student placement recommendation; consistency of course curriculum and sequencing; measures of content-based competencies; and measures of…

Describes a new student-centered, activity-oriented, open classroom approach to reading instruction with individualized instruction and continuous progress in reading skills as its major emphases. (Author/DN)

Describes "Studies in the Physical Sciences" (SPS), an audiotutorial physical science course designed for non-science elementary school classrooms. The course is completely laboratory-centered with no formally scheduled classes. Students can work at their own speed, choose what they will study from the sixteen units available and design…

Contains text of a speech presented at one of eight 2-day forums which discusses the contribution industrial arts should make to a total program of education. (Editor/SB)

In this, the sixth year of recording academic library building data, it is possible to begin a yearly appraisal of change, progress or decline by comparison with the five-year base data published last year. (Author/NH)

"Media impact demands a balanced relationship between the hardware 'delivery system' and the software 'message content.' Dr. Philip Lewis, now President of Instructional Dynamics, Inc., reviews progress during the Sixties and forecasts developments in the Seventies. (Editor)

Discusses in detail the various equipment and its employment in actual programs. The hardware and software considered include projectors, videotape recorders, television, easels, computers, newspapers, common reading material-i.e., labels, money, street signs, etc. The author warns: Each device is only as good as the person using it. (Author/JB)

Suggests 12 ways a teacher can incorporate programed instructional techniques into his daily classroom activities. (Author)

Describes the Three Dimensional Project", a program which has been established in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, to utilize the community as a learning laboratory and to expand and redefine the classroom. (Author/DR)

The primary purpose of this study was to determine through controlled classroom experimentation, the relative effectiveness of audio-tutorial and programmed learning as a supplement to conventional classroom instruction. (Author)