NAEB Newsletter (February 13, 1933)

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of educational broadcasting and the difficulty of securing the necessary facilities by an entire dependence upon commercial radio stations, 3, The establishment of an Institute for Education by Radio at the ehio State University, This Institute -which meets each year, held its first meeting in June, 1930. /.t that time leaders in educational broadcast¬ ing gathered together for ten days to discuss problems of education by radio. The Institute was a cooperative effort of the Payne the State Department of Education of Ohio, and ihe Ohio State University. Institutes have been held in 1933' and 1932, and plans are being laid for the 1933 meeting, the dates of which have been fixed for May 3-6, The proceedings of this Institute are published annually and serve as valuable reference material in educational broadcasting, 4, The formation of the National Committee on Education by Radio to secure to the people of the United States the use of radio for educational purposes, by protecting the rights of educational broadcasting, by promoting and coordinating experiments in the use of radio in school and adult education, by exchange of information thru publications, and by providing such other sbyvicos as would be of assistance in the -wiiole general field, 5, The bringing to the attention of the public the necessity of establish¬ ing a priority for the educational uses of radio by properly constituted author¬ ities. The first step in this direction -was the introduction of the Fess Bill in -the Senate on January 8, 1931. 6, The formation of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education to demonstrate the possibilities of presenting educational material on a national scale by chain broadcasting. This does not involve -the development of new procedures, but the adapting of ma-terial similar -to -that already given by colleges and universities locally, to nation-wide broadcasts.