IDENTIFIERS *Interactive Television

Four case studies in varying stages of completion are currently being conducted in the Department of Vocational and Technical Education at the University of Minnesota using live, two-way television to link multiple sites for interactive television classes. Two of the four classes, which are offered via closed-circuit television, are a vocational education class and a foreign language class at the secondary level; the other two are a professional education class for parent educators and a food preservation class for extension homemakers. Videotapes of class sessions and interviews with teachers and learners have been used to coaect the data, which are being analyzed using ethnographic procedures. Two findings from the studies illustrate what is being learned about teaching and learning in this context: (1) the interactive television technology did not appear to be a significan