Audiovisual programs designed to bring current developments in medicine to general practitioners individually are also meant to shape their subsequent behavior. There are many problems in preparing these programs, most of them involved with the fact that the medical consultant and the educational production group must work interdependently. The…

Several intensive, one-day workshops have been conducted to convince medical faculty members of the effectiveness of programed instruction texts and to acquaint them with techniques for writing such texts. Earlier studies had demonstrated, through comparison of attitude and performance test results from program-instructed and control-group medical…

An essay on the future role of technology in education stresses three conclusions. First, changes in the teacher's work resulting from the growth of educational technology will be neither as dramatic nor as rapid as is commonly forecast in the literature. Second, many of the benefits alleged to accompany the advent of teaching machinery will…

In a document translated from the Russian, an analysis is made of various forms and methods of programed learning. The primary developments in the introduction of programed learning methods are: creation of programed teaching aids; use of existing textbooks for programed lectures with feedback; and use of both teaching machines and machineless…

This presentation reports the goals, approach and results of developing a Vietnamese language course that could be taught without the presence of an instructor. The fifty-lesson course that was developed was given to 19 Military Assistance Training Advisor students, all officers at the Special Warfare Center. Audiolingual skills were emphasized…

This self-instructional text is an adjunct to the Foreign Service Institute's "Luganda Basic Course." The time required for mastery of the tonal system is normally 20 hours. Essential to the program is the series of tape recordings that accompanies this book. Contents include material on: (1) long and short vowels and consonants, (2)…

The fourth annual progress report of this multimedia, self-instructional nursing education program is presented. Accomplishments are outlined, and the current state of the project is described. Also included are sections on the probability of attaining objectives, the impact of the project, and publications. Appended are descriptions of the study…

A system is presented which facilitates the selection of training media and devices based on the requirements of specific learning objectives. The system consists of the use of a set of descriptive parameters which are common to both learning objectives and media. The system allows the essential intent of learning objectives to be analyzed in…

Designed as part of a series to develop teaching strategies for the elementary curriculum, this module focuses on simulation games and role playing as two important teaching devices. The first part describes games and simulation; and factors that should be considered in selecting, using, and debriefing games in the classroom. Exercises to test…

Activities in this self-instructional module are designed to develop teacher-trainee competencies in organizing knowledge (information) for the purpose of classroom instruction. Behavioral objectives delineate the following specific competencies desired upon completion of the study: 1) the ability to distinguish between facts, concepts, and…

This self-study program for high-school level contains lessons on: Words That Paint Pictures, Devices Used in Literature, The Meaning of Literary Devices, Periods and Levels of Writing, and Qualities of Good and Bad Writing. Each of the lessons concludes with a Mastery Test to be completed by the student. (DB)

This self-study program for high-school level contains lessons on: Free Enterprise and Government Regulation; Taxes; and Social Legislation. Each of the lessons concludes with a Mastery Test to be completed by the student. (DB)

Designed to help bring students to greater understanding of concepts of the introduction to psychology and leadership course (see the final reports which summarize the course development project, EM 010 418, EM 010 419, and EM 010 484), this Structural Communications unit is coordinated with the instructional unit in the core course on problems in…

Designed to help bring students to greater understanding of concepts of the introduction to psychology and leadership course (see the final reports which summarize the course development project, EM 010 418, EM 010 419, and EM 010 484), this Structural Communications unit is coordinated with the instructional unit in the core course on group…

Designed to help bring students to greater understanding of concepts of the introduction to psychology and leadership course (see the final reports which summarize the course development project, EM 010 418, EM 010 419, and EM 010 484), this Structural Communications unit is coordinated with the instructional unit in the core course on discipline…