When we reflect on the emergence of online education and e-learning as the leading contender to confront the traditions of face-to-face teaching and learning, it is not only a case of better understanding the characteristics of online environments, but also timely to assess the relevance of theories and frameworks informing the design and…

The usefulness of paced auditory presentation combined with simultaneous visual presentation of lesson material was examined as a technique of improving reading skills in the educable mentally handicapped. A 30-day instructional period involved four groups of students (IQ's 58 to 86, ages 12-11 to 17-11). The groups were as follow: a machine audio…

To make comparisons between school districts and to establish standards for educational communications programs, each Director of Educational Communications in each school district in New York State submitted data about his educational communication program. In summary tables for each school district, the following data are presented: the number…

The audiovisual resources listed in this catalog cover 10 instructional-technology topics: administration; facilities; instructional design; learning and communication; media equipment; media production; media utilization; research; instructional techniques; and society, education, and technology. Any entry falling into more than one category is…

This annual volume is a compilation of traditional articles, poster publications and clinical reports addressing speech and language impairments and intervention. Featured articles include: (1) "Pantomime Recognition and Pantomime Expression in Persons with Aphasia" (Joseph J. Langhans); (2) "Bilingual Classroom Discourse Skills: An…

This report describes a 12-week practicum that was designed to decrease the number of special education referrals of at-risk kindergarten students for developmental delays in communication through a direct, in-class, social language program. The program was implemented in five kindergarten classrooms and used developmentally appropriate,…

The theme of this issue of ELT Documents is the use of the language laboratory in language learning. An article by A. Maley summarizes the conference on the use of the language laboratory for advanced learners, held in Paris, 2-4 Oct. 1974, from which two main perspectives emerged. One is critical of the structuralist audio-lingual assumptions…

Significant advances in hardware and software have increased the possible applications for educating limited-English-proficient students. Two major studies have focused on technology and its relationship to the education of this population. There is a great diversity of hardware currently in use in schools, either stand-alone computers or computer…

This student instructional manual is intended for individualized study for students preparing for careers in the home entertainment sales field and for sales training of clerks in home entertainment stores. Competency based and validated by seven people from the home entertainment sales/management field, the manual contains a list of competencies…

The Webfolio project was developed at James Cook University to extend students' professional learning beyond what is taught in lectures or gleaned through the practicum. The Webfolio project trialled alternative platforms and approaches to teaching and learning. It was developed as an online learning environment that incorporated both real people…

Interest in audiovisual aids in education has been increased by the shortage of classrooms and good teachers and by the modern predisposition toward learning by visual concepts. Effective utilization of audiovisual materials and equipment depends most importantly, on adequate preparation of the teacher in operating equipment and in coordinating…

Intended to describe how audiovisual teaching materials and new techniques are presently used for educational purposes in Japan, this booklet first provides an outline of the current status and structure of Japanese public education. The status of other types of education outside of the public school system is also covered briefly. An overview of…

This twenty-sixth in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in developing the competencies needed to operate record players and tape recorders and to use this equipment effectively in presenting information. The terminal objective for the module…

At a summer conference held in 1966 at Lexington High School in Massachusetts, participants, representative geographically and by learning level, developed packets of audiovisual materials for Music Education. The use of these packets (accompanied by study guides) during the following academic year, 1966-67, was followed by a second summer…

Listings specifying source and cost are provided of tactile aids and materials designed for the visually handicapped. Items are presented in the following categories: supply sources and catalogs for aids; braille devices, including duplicators, reading and writing aids, reading readiness materials, and writing machines, slates, and styluses; deaf…