To facilitate college and university officials in financing the eduational needs of the nontraditional students, a method for collecting and determining the cost of providing units of instruction through various delivery mechanisms available to colleges and universities is presented. Twelve ways of delivering instructional units, eight types of…

This yearbook contains a report from the president of the Australian Society of Educational Technology and five articles: Theory and Practice in Educational Technology; The Use of Learning Theory in Teaching; Designing Visual Messages; Educational Technology--A Bibliography of Reference Material; and Planning and Evaluating the Use of Audio-Visual…

TEPY is a unified approach to the preparation of elementary school teachers which integrates the professional education areas of language arts and reading, mathematics, science, social studies, child development, evaluation, and teaching skills into an instructional format that is team-taught, clinically-oriented, and field-based. The program…

This bibliography cites books and articles dealing with English as a medium of instruction. The first section gives general references, while the following ten sections cite works dealing specifically with problems in Africa, Ceylon, Hongkong, India, Malaysia, the Pacific, Philippines, Singapore, South Asia in general, and Thailand. Entries…

Two computer-assisted instruction programs were written in electronics and trigonometry to test the Wollmer Markov Model for optimizing hierarchial learning; calibration samples totalling 110 students completed these programs. Since the model postulated that transfer effects would be a function of the amount of practice, half of the students were…

This handbook describes and develops the instructional system in use at North Harris County College (Texas). The document offers practical guidelines for the writing of course syllabi and the development of learning activities, and includes a selective bibliography of materials helpful to instructors. The learning activities discussed can be…

The purpose of the study was to trace and document by means of historical research methods, the organization of the St. Louis Public School System's elementary reading curriculum in regard to instructional methodology, legislation, and influential personalities. Chronologically, the study covered the period 1821-1973. The reading curriculum of the…

As computer technology becomes more sophisticated and as its application as an instructional tool increases, there is an increasing need to establish a central reservoir of computer resources and to organize a formal exchange procedure for computer hardware and software. Through Project C-BE at the University of Texas at Austin, a bilingual…

This study investigated the effect of two external conditions on the learning of principles by children. The external conditions were instruction on the major concepts related in the principle and the number of teaching examples and teaching nonexamples of the principle presented with a statement of the principle. Subjects were 159 fifth-grade…

Categories of educational research and development (R&D) effort are distinguished to guide formulation of an educational R&D program addressing communication skills instruction in the elementary schools. It is postulated that all legitimate educational R&D efforts directed toward upgrading the effects of education on a learner population fall…

After reviewing the basic principles of instructional design, the author outlines a seventeen-step procedure for the development of mathematics lessons for primary students. The procedure consists of three basic components. The first is concerned with the definition of the unit, and steps in it concern the stating of objectives and analysis of…

Recognition of the importance of the classroom as a communication environment, in which the teaching/learning process relies upon the interactive behaviors of speaking and listening, has contributed to the rapid multiplication over the past few years of courses in classroom communication. This publication, designed for educational planners…

A project to determine the level of development complexity necessary to produce cost-effective instruction is described. The project is designed to investigate alternative levels of instructional development complexity, how these different levels affect spending, varying degrees of student achievement associated with each level, and the time…

A program to train administrators, faculty, instructional designers, media specialists and computer programers in use of a new PLATO IV computer system for Florida State University is outlined and discussed. Three major areas of competence are identified: selection of appropriate PLATO materials, design of courseware, and production and TUTOR…

This article summarizes the systematic process of instructional development by breaking down the three major stages of instructional analysis, design, and formative evaluation into the steps of needs analysis, learner analysis, task analysis, concept analysis, specification of instructional requirements, and the statement of instructional…