Studies on the Learning Process Using Broadcast Television and its Recorded Version in Video Cassette

The learning process using broadcast television and its recorded version in video cassette has been investigated. It was observed that students who watched TV lecture "on time"(i.e. at their regularly scheduled broadcast time) had a high rate of successfully passing courses and getting credit for them. In addition, students strongly agreed to learn from video lecture, recorded version of broadcast TV lecture, "in the scheduled fixed time" rather than to learn "in free time" at the video study center. As a result of the present work it was found that for a distance teaching institution having broadcast TV lecture and their recorded version in video cassette as principal teaching material, either broadcast or recorded TV program when it was delivered at regular intervals could play an essential role in motivating and pace-making as well as carrying essential teaching material for student learning at a distance