Experience with mass sections in the Introduction to Business Data Processing course at the University of New Orleans has been positive. The innovations described in this articles have not only helped to conserve scarce resources but have, in the author's opinion, provided the potential for a more effective and efficient course. (HD)

An account of the recent televised mass adult education project, Project Multi-Media," in Quebec, Canada. Experience in one area of Quebec indicates that it works. Whether the program will work on a province-wide scale is yet to be seen. (Author/JB)

Teaching techniques based on the use of tools and materials at hand for creative student productions are combined with a district-wide instructional TV project for art education at the elementary level. (EJS)

Latin American radio schools have built an organization to provide a common educational policy and services of teacher training, research, and publication. Characteristics of radio school systems are outlined, and the development and formation of ALER (Latin American Association for Radiophonic Education) are discussed. (Author/MBR)

Health educators should be able to use mass comunications media and should be knowledgeable about the most recent media theories, methods, and technologies. Suggestions for making effective use of television, newspapers, and other media for disseminating health information and for conducting media campaigns are given. (PP)

Academics are prone to mythologizing a lost golden age. As a result, it is often difficult to pinpoint what about new management methods that causes frustration and resentment. The authors look at the "audit culture" of contemporary universities, and suggest that such a culture promotes verbal dishonesty and an atmosphere of mistrust.

This article deals with teaching accountancy but has wide applications. It describes the graduating teaching seminar, functions of the graduate assistant, computer accounting, honors sections, remedial sessions, report writing, and evaluation procedures. (Editor)

Research to date has provided too few answers for vital educational questions concerning teaching children or letting them learn. A basic problem is that experimentation usually begins by accepting conventional assumptions about schooling, ignoring experiments that would entail disturbing the ordering of current educational priorities.…

Suggests techniques for incorporating the BBC-TV/Time-Life Television Co-production of "The Shakespeare Plays" into high school study of Shakespeare. (DD)

Reviews research on the educational aspects of British television programs, especially those dealing with economic knowledge and financial advice. Concludes that there is a public demand for better economic understanding and that television can be used as a significant component in an economic education campaign. (GEA)

"Life-long education," a spin-off mass secondary education, born of egalitarianism in education, reinforced by technological exigences, is a concept that needs close examination for it contains the seed of illiberality just as it offers a means of social engineering and a commitment to an open society. (JH)

Two important trends in public education of the 1970's are identified as humanistic education and a wide choice of educational options. An analysis of the interrelationship between these trends emphasizes the need for educational alternatives in order to humanize education. (KM)

The large, impersonal introductory political science course is able to meet the individual students' needs by offering three tracks. A basic track is taken by everyone, a second offers open-ended possibilities to superior students; a third allows slower students to be tutored in a study center. (KM)

Examines the beginnings of mass education; the Russians' contribution, Unesco's contribution, the work of ethnologists and economists in this field, and the impact of the Tehran Conference. Includes a short literacy glossary. (RB)