When Governors State University looked to television as a strategy for improving the efficiency of its instructional programs in 1982, a proposal was made to turn certain courses taught by professors semester after semester to large numbers of students into television courses that could be taken by students throughout the academic year. The "teleclass" concept--as opposed to elaborately produced "telecourses"--is based on the premise that a classroom can be a powerful educational environment, allowing students and professors to participate in a dynamic teaching-learning process. Entire classrooms can be taped as the instructor stimulates, provokes, and challenges his/her class, and the teleclass can to a large extent capture the humor and excitement resulting from this strategy. This concept also leaves professors more free time to develop follow-up courses where students can meet in smaller groups for more personalized instruction. Additional advantages include giving all students in a department a common database and providing distance education to serve those students who are unable to attend regular on-campus courses. Television production costs can be greatly reduced by having classes held in the television studio for taping. The only courses selected for teleclasses are those that have already been developed and run successfully in the classroom. The first teleclass, Business Law, was produced in the fall of 1982; current teleclasses generate 5% of the total student enrollment at the university. The teleclass concept can also be used in business and industry for training programs. (DJR)