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A technical advisory committee on TV receiving ef|iiipment has assisted the council in preparing information for the schools about receiving equipment, its installation, and its cost.
Administration and Participation
The Midwest Council on Airborne Television Instruction has its main office Purdue University. During the initial stages of the program, Purdue and the Purdue Research Foundation are providing the council with legal, fiscal, and physical facilities. The Midwest Council operates as an independent policy-making and management group.
Schools and colleges in the region will participate in the program on a voluntary basis. They may use as many or as few of the courses as they wish and may equip as many or as few classrooms as they wish. Schedules and course descriptions will be furnished to them well in advance of the beginning of telecasting.
To assist the schools in making the best of the telecasts, area committees have been organized. The area committees make possible close liaison
between the operation of communities using it. An resource institution have serve each area committe
Plans for Evaluation
It is the policy of the Airborne Television Instr tional, technical, econom managerial aspects of the and that evaluation shall the planning and executio er than on an ex post fac the project phase. Accoi forward as rapidly as pc over-all evaluation plan 1 casting begins. In the ec areas evaluation has aire will be incorporated intc under way is a history of provide a framework and
Planning and operatipn gram will be joint functio and the resource instituti from specialists from the 1 and from testing and evi The U. S. Office of Edua interest and has offered 1960, a preliminary com representing the research source institutions and ot with the staff to propose ; over-all evaluation plan a mentation.
Personnel for the evalu added to the central staff i Evaluation procedures wi ministered through the a staff will develop or select urement and will assist the their part of the general e' also with such evaluation may wish to undertake ir own purposes. Concurrent to inform and interest res« vestigators throughout the possibilities inherent in the tive or special independt The work of evaluation w^ suitation from specialists stitutions and other evalui
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Significance of the Mi
If the airborne experim< of success, it may serve ; similar regional programs country. Already inquiries methotls have come froni United States and from sc The program has impori education in underdevelop where needed and useful carried on by the airbo having to wait until level; raised. The midwest regie taking an educational vei caiice for the nation and )
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