The Brazilian government, recognizing the benefits to be gained from instructional television (ITV), established the Advanced System of Educational Technologies (SATE). SATE conducted a study of educational television in Brazil in order to determine the actual needs for trained ITV personnel and, using these results, devised a training program. A…

Czechosovakian television has just presented a series of French Conversation Classes using audiovisual techniques and starring Czech actors and actresses. The setting of each dialog is in Czechoslovakia, and the situations are those in which a Czech would use French in his or her native land. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Discusses the use of broadcast industry sources to develop broadcast journalism course materials. Asserts that industry sources (trade journals, audience research reports, press releases, and videotapes of programs, promotions, or special industry presentations) can effectively replace textbook materials by integrating the academic and…

The development of interactive television instruction for distant learners involves nine sequential steps such as gaining attention, eliciting performance, and enhancing retention and transfer. Visual materials should be used to maintain interest and illustrate key concepts and relationships, and appropriate interactive techniques should be used…

Finds that interactive television instructors' perceptions of students' nonverbal responses are positively related to their impressions of students, their perceptions of teaching effectiveness and satisfaction, perceptions of teacher-student interpersonal relationships, and preference for teaching in the interactive television classroom; these…

This report describes two-way interactive television and its use by Minnesota's elementary and secondary schools, and discusses the potential of two-way interactive television systems for education in the next decade. While the report describes a diversity of current uses of two-way interactive television, it is argued that these applications by…

Learning by television is not a new phenomenon and, as an educational medium, it has gone through some severe growing pains. Unfortunately, while advances in technologies (cable, home recorders, satellites, teleconferencing) have contributed to an increase in the number of telecourses since the mid-1970s, faculty are often unprepared to teach…

Predominant in a list of the problems and predictions for education in general and speech communication education in particular for tbe next 50 years are both the changing form and function of the educator. A scenario of education in 2030 includes a nationwide teacher agreement that results in the release of students from mandatory attendance at…

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF SPECIFIED CONDITIONS OF TELEVISION PRESENTATION AND OF CLASSROOM ACTIVITY UPON THE ACQUISITION OF MEANINGFUL CONCEPTS AND GENERALIZATIONS OF CERTAIN NATURAL SCIENCE PHENOMENA. THE SUBJECTS CONSISTED OF 36 FIFTH-GRADE CLASSES (APPROXIMATELY 1,000 CHILDREN) SELECTED FROM 90 CLASSES WHICH HAD…

Twenty programs about conservation and forest fire prevention were telecast to kindergarten and first-grade children. The programs, each 20 minutes long, were especially prepared for that age group. Testing of experimental and control groups showed that the telecasts were outstandingly successful in teaching concepts about those subjects,…

Instructional television, an innovation in education, is viewed in its practical aspects by this book, which presents the separate thoughts of eight persons who have had extensive experience with some aspect of instructional television. The role of television in education is considered, with separate chapters providing added detail for both…

DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION OF TELEVISED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR DISADVANTAGED PRESCHOOL CHILDREN AND THEIR TEACHERS WAS ACCOMPLISHED. A SERIES OF 56 CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS AND A SERIES OF 24 PROGRAMS FOR INSERVICE TEACHERS WERE DEVELOPED AND EVALUATED. THE PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN, CALLED "ROUNDABOUT," PROVIDED EXPERIENCES AND GUIDED…

Describes cable television tutoring systems presently in use by and for students and teachers in various schools, including prepackaged and self-made educational programming. Provides information on negotiating a cable franchise and on setting up a nonprofit management access corporation. (TE)

Criticizes the Thames Television "English Programme" because it promotes mistrust, dissatisfaction, and cynicism. (CRH)

Discusses the use of television as a teaching medium by the Open University, and identifies five basic ways in which case studies can vary. These differences are used to argue that the less experience students have in using television case studies, the greater the need for didactic, structured programs. (JEG)