This annotated bibliography covers international telecommunications, concentrating on reports with possible policy implications for the Office of Telecommunications Policy and other government/industry agencies. Since the scope of international telecommunications policy is broad, the bibliography attempts to provide a framework useful in defining…

If colleges were to accept the mission of helping each student to learn as much and as well as possible, the organization of education would change. In that the three fundamental practices of education--classes, semesters, and grades--are counterproductive to the goal of maximizing student learning and exist only to meet administrative and fiscal…

This annotated bibliography from the Materials Review and Evaluation Services lists reviewed and evaluated instructional media appropriate for school media centers in the area of media education. Educators should bear in mind that materials included in this list were selected from those which publishers chose to submit for evaluation and may…

A PROJECT WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DEVELOP A CAMPUS ORGANIZATION RESPONSIBLE FOR INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLANS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE PROJECT IN TERMS OF THE NECESSARY STAFF, SPACE, FACILITIES, BUDGET, AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE. AN EQUALLY IMPORTANT, CONCURRENT TASK WAS TO INVOLVE THE FACULTY IN PLANNING FOR THE USE OF…

THE BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS 131 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON TEACHING MACHINES AND PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION. LISTED UNDER BOOKS ARE 55 ITEMS DATING FROM 1959 TO 1966. ARTICLES AND PERIODICALS CITED DATE FROM 1915 TO 1965 AND NUMBER 53. INCLUDED AS MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS ARE 23 LISTINGS SUCH AS THESES, PROJECT REPORTS, GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS, AND DITTOS…

Papers included in this document are: (1) Communication and Secrecy in Science; (2) The Suppliers Point of View--Introductory Paper; (3) Four 'New' Sciences: An Approach to Complexity; (4) Les Problemes Poses par le Vocabulaire Documentaire et l'Organisation des Dictionnaires et Thesaurus: (5) Mechanical Reading--Trends and Developments in…

This report covers three time periods during which students in five New York City high schools had use of a Computer Assisted Guidance (CAG) system. The basic objectives of the CAG project were to demonstrate the feasibility of using an automated system to provide high school students with factual and current information on colleges and careers,…

Data from the annual Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) on associate degrees and other formal awards below the baccalaureate level in institutions of higher education in the United States are presented. Completions of organized occupational curriculums in a variety of technologies normally offered in two-year collegiate programs…

One of a set of six guides for an industrial arts curriculum at the junior high school level, this guide provides the basic foundation to develop a one-semester course based on the cluster concept, construction technology. The guide suggests activity-oriented classroom and laboratory instruction focusing on the technical, environmental, safety,…

Instructional Television (ITV) program evaluation interviews were conducted with administrators, teachers, and media specialists in a junior and a senior high school serviced by the Allegheny Educational Broadcast Council (AEBC). From these interviews, factors which contribute to the use or non-use of ITV in secondary schools were identified.…

This catalog contains descriptions of selected guidelines, training materials, and consumer oriented catalogs, designed to be used in the selection of instructional materials. Each listing contains the following information: (1) title, (2) date, (3) developer, (4) availability/source, (5) cost, (6) audience, and (7) contents/purpose. The…

Fully annotated, this selected bibliography of materials on citizen participation in rural development is drawn from a large bibliography also published by the Southern Rural Development Center. Representing a severe distillation of extant materials on citizen participation, this bibliography of some 60 entries (most from the late 60's and 70's)…

Distance education is used in this survey to cover the various forms of study at all levels that are not under the continuous, immediate supervision of teachers present with their students in lecture rooms or on the same premises, but which benefit, nevertheless, from the planning, guidance, and tuition of a tutorial organization. Familiar…

The professionalism of society, the higher education of British elites, and the control of British higher education are addressed in the three papers comprising this report. The rise of a professional society, defined as a society increasingly based on technical or bureaucratic knowledge, and on trained expertise and certification by paper…

A series of analytical studies on learning, cost, and field projects, conducted by Wilbur Schramm and his associates at the Institute for Communication Research at Stanford University, are reviewed in this issue. The researchers analyzed the potential of instructional technologies in developing countries with particular reference to: (1)…