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The first experimental program in airborne televisu,
instruction gets under way in January. It could hii
resounding— and world-wide— effects in education. Be^
of the significance of this project we are devoting n^
attention to it in this issue. \
-The i
The Midwest Program On Airborne Television Instructioi
by Dr. Bryghte D. Godbold
Executive Vice President
Midwest Program on
Airborne Television Instruction
General Purposes and Plan
jyjLPATI will telecast instructional courses, recorded on video tape, from a plane circling at high altitude over north-central Indiana to schools and colleges in six states of the surrounding region. Telecasts will begin on a partial schedule for a demonstration period on January 30, 1961. In the academic year 1961-1962, a full program will be broadcast. The area receiving the signal will be 150 to 200 miles in radius, perhaps larger; testing to be done with planes and mobile units prior to lesson telecasts will determine the exact limits. The telecast area will encompass parts of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
The Ford Foundation has granted an appropriation of $4,500,000 for this project to the Midwest Council on Airborne Television Instruction. Other contributions are coming from private industry. The total cost will be about $7,750,000.
The Midwest Council was organized to afford educators of the region an agency to deal with finding solutions to some of the major problems facing American education today— the problems of offering a greater quantity of education to meet the needs of a growing school population and at the same time providing increased quality of instruction, and to do these things without raising the cost of education beyond foreseeable means.
The council decided on a major project involving television because this medium has proved its usefulness in providing instruction
of high quality to numbers of students. The borne method was selected because it can re. greater numbers at less cost than can grou, based transmitters. Capital and operating c( of airborne transmission are estimated at ab one-third as much per pupil, given 5,000,' pupils, as equivalent ground-based facilities.
For these reasons the council has planned Airborne Program. During the initial phases the Program the council will work with sta and communities in the region on ways of c structing a viable form of permanent organi tion and financial support.
Educational Planning
To make sure that the courses selected telecasting would relate effectually to the et cational needs of the region, the council wisl to obtain wide consultation with school and c lege persormel in the telecast area. Accordinj the following steps were taken:
( 1 ) The council staff met in November, 19 with the state superintendents concem< and on the following day with 39 sup intendents of city and county systems the region, to get their advice on proi dures for developing curriculum and other aspects of the project.
(2) As a result of those meetings, a curriculi policy and planning committee was form
Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — January, 1961