During 30 months in 2010-2013, 56 instructional TV programmes for an English Language Learning course were scripted in the UK and produced in Turkey. Each TV programme has three drama clips, each one followed by a review of key phrases, then by a section inviting viewers to practice speaking those phrases. The rationale for this structure and for…

This study examined the potential of entertainment-education (E-E) for promoting engagement with a science issue. It was assumed that certain entertaining features of a media experience increase viewers' perceived knowledge about an issue. Drawing on different theoretical models of E-E and on persuasive effects of narrative media messages,…

Since Eritrea became independent in 1993, efforts have been underway to revise and update the conventional education curriculum. With a determination to quickly bridge the growing knowledge gap between Eritrea and the rest of the world, the Eritrean Government has decided on media education as a sustainable alternative. This choice is in line with…

Describes a typology of the use of educational media that includes audience, location, time, interactivity, cost, and training. Compares a variety of educational media including radio, television, CD-ROM, and Internet-based instruction, and concludes that Internet-based instruction has the most potential. (Contains 12 references.) (LRW)

Examines the learners' mental models of television in actual media classroom activity by which knowledge was constructed. Findings revealed how media capabilities and the instructional designs that employ them interact with the learners and the task characteristics to influence the formation of the learners' mental models and their learning…

Describes the commercial pressures faced by public service educational television and results of poor public sector funding for core educational establishments. Discusses new technologies and financial deprivation; new partnerships and players; and the role for public broadcasters. (AEF)

The Department of Media and Communications of the Pestalozzianum Zurich (Switzerland) develops materials for media education. This article describes a book on visual competence, a CD-ROM investigating the production and distribution of newspapers, an eight-part TV series on contributions to media education, and a multimedia package about a…

A report on the International Council for Educational Media (ICEM) Conference held in Copenhagen, September 25-26, 1976. (BD)

Explores the role of educational television (ETV) and research on ETV in the Soviet system of education, with emphasis on the ways in which Soviet ETV differs from that of the West. (LS)

Obstacles to effective school television can be divided into technical, economic and pedagogic obstacles. Most of these can be overcome with appropriate action. (STS)

The three National Television Networks in the United Kingdom are discussed as educational resources for general viewers, viewers attending educational institutions, and unaffiliated adult students. (STS)

If there is a future in developing nations for educational television, it appears to be with appropriate systems developed by nationals for nationals. (Author/STS)

A view of the development and operation of a closed circuit educational television system in London. (STS)

A look at how the program committee of the European Broadcasting Union developed an international production program for educational television. (HB)

A look at how several European countries pooled their resources in order to have more media programs with better quality. (HB)