Explores the ways in which television newsmen maintain objectivity by drawing upon visual perceptions associated with either sociocultural or role definitions. (DM)

Speech delivered by the U. S. Commissioner of Education before the Annual Convention of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. (CB)

The Executive Secretary of the Joint Council on Educational Telecommunications describes the role communication satellites can play in solving educational needs. (LS)

Presents views of the American Library Association on the Cable Telecommunications Act of 1982, providing a brief overview of library involvement in cable television and endorsing amendments suggested by the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers. (EJS)

Assesses the development of videotex, an information system involving both computers and communications, noting efforts in Europe, Canada, and the United States. Federal regulations in the telecommunications industry, technical standards for videotex, and the production of videotex system components are discussed. (EJS)

For less than $3,000 per classroom, Dyersburg State Community College (Texas) has integrated its campus time-sharing computer system into projection television sets under interactive, teacher control. Six uses of the Teacher's Interactive Video Instructional System identified so far are described. (JN)

Presents a list of 48 predicted technical innovations likely to be introduced over the next 20 years, with their possible implications for communications, education, training, and entertainment. Seven references are listed. (EAO)

The individual and social uses of recent technological applications, such as information delivery and interactive home systems, are discussed. Also explored are problems related to the harnessing of these advances to individual information needs, and policy issues generated by the new technologies. Thirteen references are cited. (Author/SW)

Addresses shifts in basic telecommunication common carrier regulatory policies over the past decade; technological and economic changes prompting these policy shifts; major regulatory action resulting from these policy shifts; and the emerging regulatory issue of alternatives to local telephone service and its possible implication for online…

Looks at some of the changes that rapid developments in microcomputer and electronic communications technology will bring to schooling and society. Condensed from "The Futurist," August 1981, p25-30, published by the World Future Society, Washington, D.C. (Editor/SJL)

Explores the implications of the silicon-chip microprocessor and of telecommunications advances for future learning both inside and outside organized educational programs. (Author/RW)

There are many changing elements in the world of work that will have an effect on jobs in the future. They include the rise of telecommunications, biotechnology, energy technology, demographic changes, working women, and employees' need for personal satisfaction. The job of vocational education is to prepare people for these changes. (CT)