Reports on an Israeli national phone-in radio program which offers junior high school students help with their homework. Argues that the program embodies and reproduces the major failings of standard school pedagogy, and offers no more than an instructional patching-up operation that ultimately reaffirms the educational status quo. (KH)

Contends teachers of aesthetic education must be trained to understand and utilize various communications media for their own purposes. Provides a typology of media characteristics useful for planning mediated instruction. (JDH)

Reviews the goals of the California State Department of Education's Technology in Curriculum (TIC) projects. Provides several examples of technology use and identifies several pieces of software which are being successfully used in high school social studies classes. (JDH)

Gives brief descriptions of new physics laboratory equipment and available literature describing laboratory equipment. (MLH)

Included are abstracts of 11 films, 9 slide sets, and 20 overhead transparency sets available through English firms. (SL)

Queensborough Community College (New York) initiated a program in 1973 to enable homebound high school graduates to continue their education. (Author/ER)

In the spring of 1975, teachers in Lawrence, Kansas, approached the problem of inservice training in a new way by designing a districtwide media inservice day. (Author/ER)

The guidelines suggested in this article have evolved from the development of nationally distributed instructional systems over the past seven years at SWRL, a National Institute of Education-sponsored educational research and development laboratory. (Author)

This paper discusses some factors necessary for producing an environment for effective educational media use. (RC)

Notes that the most important fact that the data reveals is that only six of the twenty-four colleges surveyed have a dial access system leading to the conclusion that black colleges could not have killed dial access because they never had it. (Author/AM)

The uses of physical aids (printed materials, organization journal, and manuals) and audiovisual aids (flannel boards, prepared flip charts, slides, and filmstrips; tape recorder/players; radio receivers; and film) for the education of workers in rural workers' organizations are discussed. Approaches for developing new aids and techniques are…

Reports on the introduction of video recorders at various branches of the Goethe Institute. The characteristics of video are compared with those of films, tapes and printed matter. Video's advantage is that through it authentic, unprepared material can be presented, and it provides strong motivation. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A massive growth of the economy has fueled a continuing crisis in providing adequately trained professionals for Iran. One answer has been the creation of the Free University of Iran. Local Centers will form a network modeled after the British Open University. (Author/BD)

Gives practical suggestions for obtaining funding and support for maintaining media usage in the schools. (KS)