ERIC Number: ED295351
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Publication Date: 1987-Mar
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Meeting the Needs of Rural Special Education in the Information Age: Using TI-IN Network's Interactive Satellite Based Educational Network.
Pease, Pamela S.; Kitchen, Lillian
The TI-IN Network is an interactive, satellite-based educational system offering a technological alternative to face-to-face classroom instruction. Developed through a cooperative venture between private enterprise and public education agencies, the TI-IN Network offers a total systems approach by providing the entire programming and hardware package to the user. Curriculum offerings include inservice training for teachers/staff, high school academic courses, student enrichment programming, and tutorials. An evaluation by the Texas Education Agency showed that there was no significant difference between students' performance in a TI-IN classroom and a face-to-face classroom. Another evaluation project being designed by TI-IN will compare baseline data with subsequent data and will analyze the motivations for use and the expectations accompanying use of this technology. TI-IN Network is involved in two projects targeted for special education high school students: (1) Project Help, which implemented system modifications to allow forms of response other than talkback, such as tactile pads, voice recognition machines, etc.; and (2) The Mathematics Magnet School of the Air, which instructs gifted and talented secondary students on higher order thinking skills. (JDD)
Descriptors: Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communications Satellites, Disabilities, Distance Education, Educational Needs, Gifted, Information Networks, Inservice Teacher Education, Interactive Video, Mathematics Instruction, Postsecondary Education, Program Evaluation, Rural Education, Secondary Education, Special Education, Technology, Telecommunications, Telecourses, Television
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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