The author suggests several stages to be considered in long-range planning for educational reform and comments on some of the aspects of needed actions. (AA)

The author discusses faculty resistance to educational technology and to the task of defining instructional objectives. (AA)

The authors propose the creation of an Urban Service, comparable to the National Park Service, which could expose people to the intricate functioning of the city by highlighting the many places and ways in which the mind and eye can take an interesting journey." (Author/AA)

The director of the Communications Center at Hofstra University issues a philosophical challenge to adult educators. In a hard-hitting article, he accuses them of lacking imagination in their whole approach to adult education, especially in their use of the media." (Editor/AK)

Describes a graduate course, entitled Mass Media and Adult Education, at the University of British Columbia, which is designed to help the adult educator use the mass media more effectively. (AK)

The author argues for a systems approach in applying media and technology to instruction. He outlines three phases, in order of priority: (1) defining the objectives of the process and staffing strategies, (2) developing software and (3) procuring hardware." (Editor)

A brief description of the underlying philosophy and of the genesis of the Open University. (AK)

This article explores some of the reasons for the opinion that color television is not as effective as black-and-white television for instructional purposes. (AK)

The purpose of this article is to consider, first, some of the implications of using the videotape recorder in the television studio for in-school music instruction...and, second, some of the present-day practices of using smaller videotape recorders in the classroom and teaching studio for individualized instruction." (Author)

A brief description of a behavior classification system which plots student behavior against instructional styles. (AK)

Robert Gagne...accelerated the development of instructional theory by specifying the conditions for both the establishment and the observation of eight kinds of learned behavior...Within this article two additional categories are added to Gagne's original eight...and the behavior and psychological conditions under which the behavior can be…

The author hails the dramatic changes wrought in several communities following visits from Film Board personnel. By introducing films and videotapes into the communities, they persuaded people to communicate freely and to seek their own solutions for local problems." (Editor)