This evaluation report focuses on a broad range of issues associated with the work of the Electronic Text Consortium (consisting of San Diego State University, University of Wisconsin, University of Nebraska, and WGBH Boston), whose year-long task was to develop and test a variety of electronic text services and to assess which configurations of…

The advantages and disadvantages of presenting telecourse video programs are discussed with respect to three basic delivery modes used by Austin Community College (ACC): broadcast television, cable television, and videotapes in libraries and other public facilities. First, background information is presented about Austin, the local availability of…

In 1972, the University of Southern California School of Engineering established a 4-channel interactive instructional television network. It was designed to allow employees of participating industries to take regular university science and engineering courses and special continuing education courses at or near their work locations. Final progress…

The Anik-B project is part of the two-year communications experiments for which the Anik-B satellite is being used. The project was designed to explore the possibilities of using Interactive Instructional Television (IITV) to provide distance postsecondary education for people living in widely scattered and sometimes inaccessible areas of British…

To gauge reactions to the developmental testing of the broadcast component of an Arts Foundation Course, 18 members of the team identified as either producer or academic on a television or radio program tested were sent questionnaires containing open response type questions. In addition, the views of members of the Institute of Educational…

This report of a conference on the use of telephone technology in education includes 43 papers which deal with such areas as the use of the telephone in teleconferencing, designing teleconferencing programs, staff meetings, health professional continuing education, telecourses,communicaton and information networks, tutoring, party-line education,…

FIVE AREAS ARE PRESENTED--ART, FOREIGN LANGUAGE, MUSIC, PHYSICAL EDUCATION, AND SCIENCE. A CALENDAR IS GIVEN FOR CORRELATION PURPOSES. THE ART PROGRAM EMPHASIZES INDIVIDUAL CREATIVITY AND INCLUDES LESSONS ON RELIEF CARVING, STRING PRINT, POTATO CUBE PRINT, AND DIVIDED SPACE PANELS. PUPIL PARTICIPATION SHOULD OCCUR ONLY AFTER TELECAST VIEWING.…

INTENDED FOR USE BY ADMINISTRATORS AND PLANNERS, THIS GUIDE DESCRIBES COURSES AVAILABLE FROM THE GREAT PLAINS ITV LIBRARY. FIVE INDICES ARE INCLUDED, ONE CLASSIFYING ELEMENTARY, JUNIOR HIGH, SECONDARY AND ADULT COURSES BY SUBJECT, ANOTHER LISTS THEM BY GRADE LEVEL. A THIRD LISTS COLLEGE COURSES BY SUBJECT, ANOTHER DESCRIBES INSERVICE…

Recent research data have suggested that the mediated courses of Chicago's TV College have increasingly begun to draw from new and different populations of students with different characteristics and levels of ability. This study was designed to generate survey-type data regarding the demographic and attitudinal characteristics of a wide spectrum…

The guide was designed so that the program series could be effectively used as an instructional device for self or individualized study. The series was produced as a public service and planned for adult viewing as enrichment to the basic information about the United States Government. The objectives of the guide for each program are: 1) to…

Telecourses developed, acquired, and distributed by the National Instructional Television (NIT) Center are described in this "Factbook." For primary through senior high school, telecourses are listed in the subjects of art, communications, early childhood, economics, foreign language, guidance, health and physical education, humanities,…

The relative appeal and effectiveness of several television lesson formats designed for adult learners in an open university learning system were evaluated. One hundred and fifty-four subjects viewed video lesson segments in two college course areas, Accounting and Psychology. A variety of TV formats were used, including story-lines, short…

The use of a telemedicine system (live, color microwave television transmission with two-way auditory and visual communication capability) to teach a course in critical care nursing from an urban university medical center to staff members in rural southeastern Ohio hospitals is described. (MS)

Miami-Dade Community College offers a course called "The Art of Being Human," which uses a text-anthology, study guide, television films, and slide-tape independent study programs. The student taking this introductory course hopefully will be motivated to learn more about humanities in other courses or in self-study. (Author/LBH)

After citing the new acceptance of telecourses and the potential of public television for reaching the masses, the following factors are discussed: student attitudes, academic effectiveness, flexibility of usage of television and printed materials, diversity in the learning experience, cost effectiveness, and the opportunity for faculty and…