Describes a project in which experimental national support services for adults were set up as a follow-up to the British Broadcasting Corporation's beginning French series. These services were: (1) a course-linked magazine, (2) a national network of study and self-help groups, and (3) a postal and telephone question-and-answer service. (SED)

Discusses trends in adult education and their implications for instructional developers, and notes areas where reviews of research are needed: existing telecourse packages, recruitment and retention of adult learners, effective instructional strategies, logistics and costs of alternate delivery systems, and technical assistance and training needs…

For getting high-grade education economically into remote hard-to-reach places, it's well nigh impossible to match satellite technology. (Editor)

The twenty-first in a series of profiles examining the use of instructional technology at 24 institutions, this report describes an alternative system for delivering televised instruction to off campus locations via videotapes carried by private courier or mail. Colorado State was the first university in the nation to use this method. (Author/LBH)

Criticizes the television French course "Les Gammas" for the usual TV faults: the "student" is 80 to 90 percent onlooker-listener, and 10 to 20 percent participant. TV can teach essentially only auditory understanding. The course is described in some detail; it is found to have high motivational value. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A description of an effective Math instructional television series for second graders. (Author/HB)

Pennarama, a partnership between the Pennsylvania State University and the Pennsylvania Educational Communications Systems, provides a continuing education cable television service to more than 150,000 homes in eastern and central Pennsylvania. Courses are of three types: standard college credit work; training for business and professional…

Live television is the fastest-growing distance learning delivery mode. Instructors must understand how distance learning differs from both the traditional classroom and commercial television, how the basic technology operates, the role played by the teacher in delivering instruction, how to design courses according to system capabilities, and how…

Critically reflects on the author's experience teaching composition at a community college via low-end noninteractive telecourse technology. Suggests that a course that strives to teach analysis and critical thinking skills should not be taught with noninteractive technology. (TB)

Discusses the difficulties in attracting and preparing special educators in the area of severe disabilities. A University of North Carolina at Charlotte program that uses distance learning to prepare special educators to work with students with severe disabilities is described, along with the benefits of distance learning. (CR)

Describes the Virginia Tidewater Consortium for Higher Education, a consortium of 15 colleges and universities located in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, which has operated its own cable television channel for the past 21 years. The channel serves the educational needs of the community and allows strategic alliances with other agencies. (EV)

Addresses the problems of adapting instructional courses for trans-European tele-learning and for enlarging the range of students and learning modalities in distance learning. Building on previous work on the portability of educational software, various dimensions of software adaptation are examined and their possible effects on course adaptation…

Examines the use and convenience of distance learning by telecourses, providing results from surveys of Montgomery Community College students over a 10-year period regarding their preferences and the appeal of telecourses. (DMM)

This study compared college students' ratings of special education courses, offered on and off-campus, that used different instructional methods (including electronic media). End-of-course student evaluations indicated that global ratings for instructor, teaching skill, and communication were similar across courses and across locations (on-campus…