Learning Science at a Distance: Using Interactive Television to Work with Schools

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In the 1980's the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell pioneered the use of a two-way television network linking it to public school districts in northeastern Massachusetts. In the thirteen years of the network's existence we have paid close attention to the teaching and learning of students at near (the college) and far (the schools) sites as we have attempted to serve as a model for the demonstration of unique uses for interactive television. Nationally, interactive television networks have been established primarily for course sharing between high schools, to counteract teacher shortages in subjects such as physics and mathematics. This is particularly true of rural areas of the United States (Greenwood & McDevitt, 1988; Robinson, Collins & West, 1985). Additionally, interactive television networks give schools the opportunity to enroll their students in undergraduate courses at local universities and colleges. However, early in the development of televisio

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