The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss learner responses to the television component of the various courses developed or offered by the University of Mid-America (UMA). Implications for courseware development are outlined, and research questions to be addressed are suggested. Four courses were offered by UMA: (1) Accounting I, (2)…

Open University faculty create their own instructional materials for use in distance teaching. A methodology is described for evaluating the teaching effectiveness of the materials and the teaching methods used. It is applied to a unit of a materials science course written for a specific text. A small group of students in the course was surveyed…

Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) has been studied in Japan since about 1963. However, materials for computer-assisted English second language instruction at the college level are not highly developed. A 1985 experiment in CAI at one Japanese university used materials developed by faculty, staff, and students. Instruction using CAI at Doshisha…