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The Use of Satellite Delivery Systems in Education in Canada: The Costing of Two Networks and a Preliminary Needs Survey. Volume 2: A Preliminary Needs Survey.
Daniel, John S. – 1977
Volume 1 of this study describes and costs two possible satellite networks which could be used in education in Canada. In order to determine whether these networks were plausible or useful, a letter and a description of the two hypothetical networks were sent, before the cost study was completed, to all Canadian Universities and provincial…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Delivery Systems, Educational Assessment, Educational Development
The Use of Satellite Systems in Canadian Education: Volume 3. Needs Survey: Second Round.
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Robin, Michel; Daniel, John S. – 1977
Volume 1 of this study describes and costs two possible satellite networks which could be used in education in Canada. In order to determine whether these networks were plausible or useful, a letter and a description of the two hypothetical networks (Volume 2) were sent, before the cost study was completed, to all Canadian universities and…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Educational Assessment
Study of Education Satellite Communication Demonstration. Fourth Quarterly Progress Report. Report of Activities and Accomplishments, April 11, 1975 to July 10, 1975.
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Syracuse Univ. Research Corp., NY. Educational Policy Research Center. – 1975
A fourth quarterly report completes one year of the Educational Policy Research Center's (EPRC) analysis and assessment of the Education Satellite Communication demonstration. Activities and accomplishments during the period April 11, 1975-July 10, 1975 are listed and described. The report also includes cost data from the Appalachian Educational…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Demonstration Programs, Educational Assessment, Educational Development
The Use of Satellite Delivery Systems in Education in Canada: The Costing of Two Networks and a Preliminary Needs Survey. Volume 1: The Costing of Two Networks.
Daniel, John S.; And Others – 1977
This study examines the methodologies and costs of establishing educational delivery systems using satellites currently in orbit or planned. It identifies two operational system scenarios and their predicted costs. One system, the Canadian Universities Satellite System (CUSS), is hypothesized to provide the means of transmitting audio and video…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Construction Costs, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems
Half-Work, Half-Study: Schools in Communist China. Recent Experiments with Self-Supporting Educational Institutions. Bulletin, 1964, No. 24. OE-14100
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Barendsen, Robert D. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
This study of experiments with a new type of educational institution in Communist China is based upon an analysis of materials from Chinese Communist newspapers and periodicals. Reliance upon a discriminating use of such materials is necessitated by the lack of impartial first hand evaluations of these new institutions by qualified outside…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Experiments
Literacy in a Non-Literacy Milieu: The Indian Scenario.
Saraf, S. N. – 1980
Section 1 of this report develops the thesis that while illiteracy is deeply entrenched in certain areas of India, it is also confined to specific pockets of the population. Recognition of this fact should be the basis, according to the author, of literacy strategy. Section 2 provides a history of the levels of priority given to adult education…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Decentralization, Developing Nations