By investigating the personal characteristics of an audience and the response of its members to televised lessons, an effort was made to appraise the effectiveness of 59 televised lessons in promoting the economic literacy of the citizens of Arkansas. The media comprised educational and commercial stations. Of a sample selected from a viewer…

Presented is the second of a two-part study that describes how some colleges have been joining together in a grassroots cooperative movement to buy, make use of, and shape telecourses. The experiences of two such consortia used by colleges are among the topics discussed. (JMD)

The author describes a series of ten television programs on basic musical education which are scheduled to be aired over Public Broadcasting Stations for classroom use in the intermediate grades throughout the United States. A curriculum guide is also available through the Government Printing Office. (BM)

The results of telecourse offerings in the Dallas County Community College District include increased enrollment and heightened interest in the humanities and other fields, without threatening faculty job security. Methods of recruiting adults for telecourse offerings are described. (RT)

Dutch television producers investigated methods of redesigning thematic educational broadcasts directed at independent adult learning. Results focused on context and image, content, form, and appeal to the audience. (Author/LRW)

The telecommunication system at Buena Vista College has given the college the potential for greater dissemination of learning and for bringing the world to its doorstep. Three areas of interest related to the telecommunication system are: telemarketing, teleconferencing, and telent courses. (MLW)

The cost effectiveness of videocassettes and television broadcasts for the Open University's instructional purposes is examined, and the relative inexpensiveness of videocassette production and distribution is weighed against other issues, including access to equipment, changes in format necessary to take advantage of videocassettes' instructional…

The purpose of this dissertation is to identify the instructional goals of faculty who teach in the web-based environment and compare those to the goals of faculty who teach traditional, face-to-face course. Study participants were faculty members from two year public community colleges in Florida and the data was collected via a website that…

The report opens with a discussion of how education and community are closely associated throughout traditional education and history, and how changes in one of these influence the other. It then turns to a review of past literature examining educational objectives and the skills needed by educators. Such skills must be used to adapt to the…

University of Georgia Student Performance was measured by the Test of Understanding in College Economics pretest-posttest procedure with Part II Forms A and B. Both lecture and TV groups were lower than the national norm with the TV groups the lowest. (Author/SE)

Educational television offers a number of effective options for instruction. The development of several exemplary programs which have provided educational alternatives for schools, colleges, and other organizations are described. (Author/PP)

Argues that television has unique educational characteristics that separate it from other media and have implications for teaching and learning. Discussion of distributional and social, control, and symbolic (audiovisual) characteristics is based on published surveys and on research carried out at the Open University. Thirteen references are…

Discusses reasons why colleges and universities have not supported the production of media materials for their instructional programs and proposes a cost effective approach for offering quality independent study courses (telecourses, radio/audio courses, text/study guides with audio support). (DC)

Describes the use of telelecture in a continuing education course for registered nurses in two rural states. The author suggests that a major variable to success in the use of telelecture is the skill of the teacher as a facilitator to solicit, organize, and present material in a useful manner. (Author/JEG)

Discusses the history of mass media in higher education in three phases: early developments, 1920-1948; experiments with educational television, 1950s and 1960s; and major production and use of educational telecommunications, 1967 to present. (SK)