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Television in education

LC control no.sh 85133551
LC classificationLB1044.7
Topical headingTelevision in education
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Variant(s)Educational television broadcasting
ETV (Educational television)
See alsoAudio-visual education
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Distance education
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Teaching--Aids and devices
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Closed-circuit television
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Educational television stations
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Scope noteHere are entered works about the use of television in education. Works about television programs that are intended to impart knowledge and information, including those for classroom viewing, are entered under Educational television programs. Works about television programs that use a structured format to teach or train the audience are entered under Instructional television programs.
Subject example tracingNotes under Educational television programs; Instructional television programs
Found inGibson, T. The practice of ETV, 1970.
TV genres, 1985: p. 365 (educational programming; educational and cultural television programming; educational broadcasting) p. 366 (The first experiments with educational television may have taken place at the Univ. of Iowa bet. 1932 and 1939. The Iowa station broadcast a number of programs that featured academic subjects during this period. This experiment was typical of an early concept of educational broadcasting: the use of the broadcast spectrum to extend the traditional classroom; ETV)