A description of a project conducted in Edmonton, Canada, to determine whether a classroom teacher and students could produce a narrated slide-tape set without prior knowledge of production techniques. (Author)

Educational technology is not new. Between the years 1809 and 1936 the United States Patent Office issued over six hundred patents for machines which could teach. It would appear that many people felt that machines could do much of the routine job of instruction and it was this feeling which contributed much to the development of a systematic…

A general aim of this paper is to clarify the heritage of instructional technology and to put it in its proper context vis-à-vis the audiovisual movement. A specific aim is to show the relationship between diverse theories and the kinds of technologies of instruction which have evolved out of these conceptions. Finally, a redefinition of the…

Independent learning and teaching is an educational system in which the learner is autonomous, and separated from his teacher by space and time, so that communication is by print, electronic, or other nonhuman medium. (Author)

The overhead projector is shown to be a superior alternative to the chalkboard. Uses and advantages include these: planned visual instruction with key ideas featured in color, face-to-face instruction with lights on or off, progressive revelation or serialized transparencies, and clarity of information presentation. (SC)

A description of freezeframe, a technique by which film, interspersed with still visuals and audio instructions, is used by the federal government in the training of health professional personnel. (Author)

A description of a new approach to teaching an introductory communication course using video tape modules. (HB)

Discusses the design of a modified loop-the-loop apparatus in which a water stream is used to illustrate centripetal forces and phenomena of high-velocity hydrodynamics. Included are some procedures of carrying out lecture demonstrations. (CC)

A need exists for wider communication of cost-effective and generally applicable experiments in improved learning. Two highly enrolled and innovative approaches of a department of Science and Human Affairs are described. (Author)