This document provides a synthesis of the final project reports and project evaluations of a series of health and education satellite experiments designed to explore the use of satellite technology in the delivery of social services. Each summary in this paper outlines the objectives, procedures, instructional or medical content, and the overall…

The major educational needs of potential students and ways these needs can be met by New Dimensions, a special component of the Los Angeles Community Colleges designed to offer new kinds of educational services, are explored. Barriers to regular college enrollment, special learning needs and interests not generally met through regular college…

The outreach development process described in this document is designed to provide a model for planning and implementing a program to extend access to educational opportunity for members of the community served by the Los Angeles Community College District. There are four steps required to initiate such a program: (1) Identification--each college…

Reported is the experimantal implementation of a new approach, called Telebook, for delivering Talking Book materials via telephone to blind readers. It is explained that the system involves immediate, low cost, electronic delivery of recorded materials in response to individual telephone requests. Evaluation of the system, implemented in the…

Inadequacies in the quality and quantity of human services for Northeastern rural area residents prompted the seminar from which these transcripts are derived. Presented via chronological order, these transcripts reflect development of a framework and methodology for analysis of community service systems. Major seminar objectives are identified…

Neither the abstract conceptualization nor the pragmatic reality of financial aid operates in a vacuum. Both are subject to, and indeed part of, the larger societal fabric with its overriding priorities and concerns. The relative paucity of universal truths in this field does not, however, in any way diminish the state's responsibility for…

Focusing on the resources necessary to serve Hawaii's present and future communication needs, this paper considers both the problems and the possibilities for communications developments during the next 50 years. Specific topics covered in the paper include communication needs, resources and technology (telephone, radio, television, newspapers,…

The Appalachian Education Satellite Project (AESP) was designed to apply communications satellite technology to the task of improving the quality of education in Appalachia. This report is the 10th in a 12 volume series. To justify the cost of using the satellite method, a cost model was developed. This cost model provided information on: (1) the…

The needs of teachers for high-demand and seasonal films have been met by a cooperative effort of the Berks County Educational Television Committee, local school districts, the Berks and Suburban TV cable companies and the Berks County Intermediate Unit in a project called Operation Cooperation. Regionalization of the instructional media services…

To prepare for proposed reforms of federal regulations governing the installation and operation of cable television, a survey was conducted to identify the educational institutions using cable television and to determine the types and amount of usage for each institution. The names of 511 user institutions were supplied by the National Cable…

Described is Project TELEPAC, a telecommunications-based system which provides instructional packets to parents of severely handicapped children in rural areas of Utah. In addition to the parent involvement packets which outline teaching methods, correction procedures and behavior management practices for arithmetic, language arts, self help and…

Taking the position that the Classical Experimental Evaluation (CEE) Model does not do justice to the process of acquiring information necessary for decision making re planning, programming, implementing, and recycling program activities, this paper presents the Inductive, System-Process (ISP) evaluation model as an alternative to be used in…

To meet the needs of adult students in higher education, colleges and universities must give attention to the planning implications of enrolling large numbers of adults. Institutions ready to accept the challenge of the adult student must reevaluate program offerings, course scheduling, special degree programs, changes in methods of instruction,…

A study was made of the market need for cable television-based higher education from an off-campus and non-traditional point of view. State University of Nebraska (SUN) is such an endeavor. Reduced to its essence, SUN is three things: (1) an extensive investigation into non-traditional education; (2) a new exportable model for systematized design…

Reported are 1973 conference proceedings of the National Association of Coordinators of State Programs for the Mentally Retarded (MR), which address the economics of service delivery to mentally handicapped children and adults. Conference speakers included a state legislator, a state budget official, an economist, and state and local officials.…