Nontraditional instructional activities are defined in this report as those based on new or unconventional forms of education, free of the constraints of time, place, or form which characterize traditional classroom instruction. The several sections of this report detail a variety of approaches to nontraditional instructional activities at Purdue University. These approaches include instructional radio, the Lafayette Television Unit, microwave television, statewide televised pharmacy seminars, live TV seminars on communications disorders, teaching forestry via TV, extension classes, evening classes, conference operations, intensive summer courses and workshops, a physics minicourse, audio-tutorial and closed circuit TV instruction in veterinary science and medicine, cooperative education programs, apprentice training programs, directed study, independent study, the advance credit examination program, and a home economics extension program. (HS)