Test Pattern

John A Lee

ISBN 10: 1487577028 / ISBN 13: 9781487577025

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, CA, 1971

Scarborough was the first North American university college planned from its inception for television. Closed-circuit TV was fully integrated into its physical fabric and academic program. Videotaped lectures, backed up by small group discussions, were to replace many live lectures. The plan was calculated not only to bring the best lectures abailable to all students, but to save the taxpayers about one million dollars a year. The savings have not resulted; new questions of academic rights and copyright have been raised; and the value of television as a replacement medium is left in doubt. John Lee has written a comprehensive and easily read report of the experiement, its results, and its effects on the internal life of the college. His approach is sociological. While not ignoring the obvious effect of individual personalities involved in the experiment, he contends that the main events were products of the social conditions and forces of time -- among them a rapidly rising student enrolment and technological advances in instructional television. His report is a valuable sociological study of the medium, as well as a detailed examination of the role of television in higher education. It will be of great interest to teachers, administrators, and others concerned with improving university education. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9781487577025

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Scarborough was the first North American university college planned from its inception for television. Closed-circuit TV was fully integrated into its physical fabric and academic program. Videotaped lectures, backed up by small group discussions, were to replace many live lectures. The plan was calculated not only to bring the best lectures abailable to all students, but to save the taxpayers about one million dollars a year. The savings have not resulted; new questions of academic rights and copyright have been raised; and the value of television as a replacement medium is left in doubt.
John Lee has written a comprehensive and easily read report of the experiement, its results, and its effects on the internal life of the college. His approach is sociological. While not ignoring the obvious effect of individual personalities involved in the experiment, he contends that the main events were products of the social conditions and forces of time -- among them a rapidly rising student enrolment and technological advances in instructional television. His report is a valuable sociological study of the medium, as well as a detailed examination of the role of television in higher education. It will be of great interest to teachers, administrators, and others concerned with improving university education.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: JOHN LEE studied sociology at the University of Toronto and received an honours BA in 1956. Initially keeping his degree secret, he worked his way up through the trade union movement as a factory labourer. In 1958 he was appointed research director of the Eastern District of the International Woodworkers of America, and in 1960 became education and public relations director of Local 1000 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. He received an MA from Toronto in 1965, left union work to lecture in sociology at Trent University, and then went ot Sussex University and obtained a doctorate in sociology. Since 1969 he has been a member of the faculty of Scarborough College, University of Toronto, and at present is chairman of the Dean's Advisory Committee on Television there. He has published two sociological studes: "The Greendale canadians' in Canadian Society, edited by Bernard Blishen, and Sectarian Healers.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Test Pattern
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, CA
Erscheinungsdatum: 1971
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: New