Article considers the attitudes toward technology media of faculty at a California Community College in light of some of their basic attitudes toward the teaching process. (Author)

Article describes the methodology utilized in a project aimed at improving the general media competencies and practices of pre-school projects to educate handicapped children. (Author)

Describes a series of videotapes prepared for counselor training on the subject of using tests and test results. (PC)

Communication training for health care providers and consumers can help prepare individuals to effectively meet the communicative demands of health care practice. Offering health communication educational programs at several different educational contexts (in elementary and secondary schools, in health care organizations, and in universities,…

Serving as a way to sum up or apply many of the principles students have been studying in a general semantics course, a unit on advertising language is devoted to examining how advertisers select language for its affective and directive uses. The unit shows how language is used to stimulate consumer interest in a product and often to mask the lack…

One of the greatest challenges of music analysis, and especially its pedagogy, is the issue of unification: the integration of detailed and sometimes disparate analytical observations within a more global explanatory context. Music theory has traditionally addressed this issue from the perspective of syntax (the most familiar approaches being…

This article describes a method, called programmed student achievement, for handling the huge numbers of students in an introductory course without loss of educational quality. It provides for lectures and small discussion sections and a quizzing mechanism to enforce regular study of material. (JH)

A psychology course in which students are required to apply learned principles to their interpersonal experiences is the instructors answer to the need to make psychological principles and methods generally available for a wider impact on human existence. (JH)

This introductory psychology course consisting of 16 contemporary films available at each student's convenience; readings; discussion sessions; and laboratory experience, assisted by upper-division psychology students, is an attempt to minimize some of the problems of the usual introductory lecture course. (JH)

Examines constraints on innovation in teaching and learning in higher education, and institutional mechanisms for trying to promote such innovation. Factors such as teaching climate, resource allocation and consultancy support are considered. (Editor/PG)

Moraine Valley Community College and the Southtown Economist Newspaper cooperatively have developed and are offering a U. S. History course (1865 to Present) which is currently appearing on a weekly basis to readers of the newspaper. A sample unit is appended. (Author/MJK)

Describes an instructional system incorporating: objectives described in advance, frequent interaction with proctors, frequent essay examinations, a self-pacing feature, high mastery requirement for each unit, and immediate feedback for each attempt; and that encourages serious efforts and maintains continual motivation. (Author/MLF)

Author describes a three-school model computer assisted instruction program underway in the Montgomery County, Maryland, public school system. (Author)

A proponent of the lecture method describes his conversion to "packaged" instruction--courses based on autoinstructional modules. (DC)