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Bates, Tony – Teaching at a Distance, 1976
Reports a 1974 survey of the 12,800 students taking courses in Britain's Open University to determine viewing and listening figures for each course and to compare the figures for different transmission times and the different faculties (disciplines). The average student watched about two-thirds of the TV and heard about half of the radio programs…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Courses, Educational Radio, Educational Research
Carver, Vida – Teaching at a Distance, 1977
Some of the effects of deafness are examined in the context of learning and suggestions are offered for identifying and alleviating them. Up to 200 Open University students could benefit from special services such as those described in the six case studies in this article. They all received transcripts of radio and television programs to…
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Television, External Degree Programs, Handicapped Students
Meed, John – Educational Broadcasting International, 1976
Descriptors: Educational Radio, External Degree Programs, Higher Education, Media Research
Download full textBates, A. W. – 1974
Very little is known about how students learn from television, particularly when television is used in conjunction with a prescribed set of written materials. At the Open University of Great Britain, classes have proliferated to the extent that it is not longer possible to broadcast one lecture to accompany each unit of instruction. To reduce air…
Descriptors: College Students, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
Bates, A. W. – 1975
The Open University of Great Britain is an open-enrollment, home-based institution in which the majority of the instruction is conducted via broadcasts and correspondence. There are over 50,000 students ernolled in nearly 100 courses which require the transmission of 1,000 television and 1,000 radio broadcasts each year. Recently, research has…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Radio, Educational Research
Gallagher, Margaret – 1975
The Open University of Great Britain is an open-enrollment, home-based institution in which the majority of instruction is conducted via broadcasts and correspondence. As part of an effort to measure the effectiveness of this program, 490 students in a course in mathematical analysis were surveyed to: 1) determine the amount of time students spent…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, College Students, Course Evaluation, Educational Radio
Bates, A. W. – 1975
The Open University of Great Britain relies heavily on broadcasting as a mode of instruction. Because increased course offerings have made program scheduling a problem and because production costs have risen sharply, a survey was conducted to determine the use patterns of students so that the system's resources could be allocated in the most…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Programs, Educational Radio, Educational Television
