Paper concentrates on the special problems involved in evaluating multimedia educational systems, particularly as they affect researchers. (Author)

The design, organization, application and implications of a practical self-instructional course to teach audio-visual media and methods to teachers and student teachers are described. Extracts of the printed course texts illustrate the format and content of the course. (Author)

Evaluation of the use of videotape cassettes at the University of Bath library. Student use, relation to course work, costs, amount of cognitive learning, and purpose of the materials were studied through observation and interviews. (RAO)

Attitudinal differences among first-year polytechnic students towards ways of learning mathematics are investigated in relation to field of study, level of ability, and method of instruction. (RAO)

Examines rating of 57 aims of a course on educational technology by ex-students and a group of colleagues not in the course. (RAO)

Trends in modern technology suggest that stand-alone computer systems, perhaps incorporating the videodisc, will represent the major systems of the future; they will be widely available in homes, libraries, and educational institutions. (Author/JEG)

Describes and compares some CMI systems, e.g., Scout at Brigham Young University, a system at Florida State, CDC's PLATO, and the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory System, in terms of their attributes, rationale for design, and their future directions. (JEG)

Discusses some of the problems faced by educators and systems developers in developing and implementing effective technological systems for the instruction, administration, and management of education on a broad scale. (Author/JEG)

Describes a micro-processor controlled instruction delivery system being developed for use with deaf students which incorporates film cassette, frame or sequence addressable, color motion or still visuals under computer program control for local or remote delivery. An authoring capability for development and validation and a program are also…

Presents an overview of the PLATO Corrections Project (PCP) in Illinois and Minnesota, and describes recent curriculum development efforts in adult reading comprehension and vocabulary development. Data collected on student/instructor usage, attitudes, and achievement demonstrate that the PCP system is feasible, attractive, and effective in…

Discusses programer job training programs, designed to give the knowledge, skills, and effective job experience required for placement in entry level business programing jobs, to chronically unemployed, low-income adults who lack marketable skills, but demonstrate the intelligence, competence, motivation, and temperament required to do…

This description of a project to review computer impact on society and computer literacy courses and materials includes the effort to gather and maintain a comprehensive bibliography, an analysis of the literature currently included, a set of objectives for courses, and future plans for refinement. (Author/JEG)

In an information society, a computer literate populace is as important as energy is to an industrial society. Other nations have begun the task of restructuring their systems to include computers and unless the United States begins soon, the next crisis in American education will be the computer literacy crisis. (Author)

TICCIT has been a prominent feature of the instructional environment of the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community College since 1974, and its presence has pervaded all the operations of the campus, both instructional and administrative. Positive and negative impacts have been recorded by two evaluations. (Author)

This study of the effectiveness of a multimedia course in plant anatomy shows a highly significant improvement in the capacity to answer final examination questions which involve problem solving, and a correlation between this improvement and the strategies used in small group teaching. Data, references, and notes are provided. (Author/JEG)