The author suggests that we should try to divert a little of our time and energy away from maintaining the vast educational apparatus that we have created, towards the task of obtaining vantage points from which the longer term choices that face us can be identified, and the significance of present day decisions in relation to these choices…

This paper examines the relevancy of the concept of accountability and discusses three main forms that accountability may take. (AK)

Some of the factors which hinder the development of research and evaluation in central service units producing instructional television programs in universities are considered." (Editor)

The aim of this paper is to highlight some of the problems that arise when" teaching materials for television broadcast are produced as part of a collaborative team effort, and under acute time pressure." (Author/AK)

The second in a series of short descriptive papers concerning Britain's newly-established Open University. The author discusses the nature of the teaching materials being developed by the university and some of the difficulties involved in producing these materials. (AK)

This paper is concerned with the following problem: Given a tentative educational system, constructed to reach certain predetermined objectives and satisfying a set of well-formulated constraints, how can mechanisms be installed and operated such that rational, iterative improvement of the system can be made?" (Author)