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SATELLITE TELECONFERENCING IN CONTINUING EDUCATION
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to project the future of satellite teleconferencing in continuing education. The decade of the 1980's is expected to bring about a number of changes in higher education including a reduction in the number of traditional college age students. One way institutions of higher education can react to this change is to share resources with other institutions through satellite teleconferencing. The Delphi technique was the methodology used to project the future of satellite teleconferencing in continuing education. A panel of 28 persons generated statements during the first round of the study and rated those statements during subsequent rounds. The study was conducted during late 1981 and early 1982. The time line established for the statement rating was 1981-1992. The results of the study suggest that satellite teleconferencing in continuing education can be expected to involve a mixture of media under the coordination of one person at each of the participating institutions. It can be expected that colleges and universities will develop working agreements to handle registration, evaluation, and examination procedures. Privacy and copyright were issues identified as needing attention. The study results also suggested that educational materials will be disseminated to remote regions of the country, leading to the need for the development of interinstitutional and international policies to govern the technical and administrative issues raised by the transmissions which cross geographic boundaries. The study also suggested that many issues remain to be resolved such as the role of faculty and staff members, the coordination of teleconferences, and the financing of teleconferencing. Overall, the members of the panel suggested through their ratings that satellite teleconferencing does indeed have a place in the future of continuing education.
Subject Area
Adult education|Continuing education
Recommended Citation
BRETZ, RANDALL GLEN, "SATELLITE TELECONFERENCING IN CONTINUING EDUCATION" (1982). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8306472.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8306472