Closing a window on the world: Convergence and UK television services for schools

Moss, Robin

doi:10.1080/09548960009365137

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“…Unfortunately, during the growth period of educational television (ETV) from the late 1960s onwards, its producers tended to respond to its versatility by creating materials that were as complex and expensive as the productions of broadcast entertainment television -often excessively so for educational purposes (Fisch, 2004). With the arrival of the Internet in the 1990s, it became easy for administrators to justify disbanding the lavish broadcast-quality studios that had evolved for institutional video production (Moss, 2000). In place of the ETV production teams of the 1970s and 1980s, a new generation of multimedia designers was hired, who have since filled online repositories with Web-based course materials for students to access at their convenience; and history is now repeating itself as these materials become increasingly elaborate.…”

Section: The Decline Of Sophisticated Educational Mediamentioning

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Where did distance education go wrong?

Baggaley

2008

Distance Education

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Distance education (DE) practices around the world use a wide range of audio-visual technologies to overcome the lack of direct contact between teachers and students. These are not universally adopted by DE teachers, however, nor even encouraged by their institutions. This article discusses the organisational attitudes that can lead to outdated methods being maintained and successful ones abandoned, and it suggests that, just as educational television and programmed learning were supplanted in previous decades, so the World Wide Web could be abandoned as a viable education medium in the foreseeable future and replaced by more widely available media such as the cell phone. The article contrasts the learner-centred philosophies underlying current DE approaches with the teacher-centred philosophies of a generation ago. If these two philosophies are not united in a sensible middle ground, the article suggests, history may come to regard today's DE as a Dark Age less enlightened than when Genghis Khan sent his arrow riders to deliver the mail in person across the Mongolian steppes, and when Lenin dispatched educational media experts to deliver DE materials by hand across the post-revolutionary Soviet Union. The main losers in this scenario, the article concludes, will be the students of the developing world.

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Section: The Decline Of Sophisticated Educational Mediamentioning

confidence: 98%

Where did distance education go wrong?

Baggaley

2008

Distance Education

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“…Its public consultation was conducted over a six-week period in September and October 2000, and attracted 1,336 responses-90% of them expressing support for the BBC's proposals. However, opponents criticised the process on the grounds of its brevity, its timing (at the beginning of the school year) and its low response rate (Digital Learning Alliance, 2002;Moss, 2000). Secondly, the BBC commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct a review of the potential impact of the BBC's service on relevant markets.…”

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“…Meanwhile, some commentators are predicting that this 'headlong rush' to digital resources will inevitably result in the decline of the BBC's schools television service. Robin Moss, former head of educational broadcasting at the Independent Television Commission, objects to what he sees as the down-grading of schools broadcasting on a number of grounds: schools TV is still popular (particularly in primary schools), ICT has not been proven to be more effective than television, and far more people have access to television than to the internet (Moss, 2000). The BBC has rejected most of these accusations, although Michael Stevenson (former BBC joint Director of Factual and Learning) has suggested that there might be a gradual reduction in TV and radio broadcasts over the longer term as schools move towards digital technology (Stevenson, 2002).…”

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Debating the Digital Curriculum: intersections of the public and the private in educational and cultural policy

Buckingham¹,

Scanlon²

2003

London Review of Education

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In January 2003, the British government approved the BBC's Digital Curriculum, a new £150 million initiative to provide educational software to schools and homes. The decision was widely criticised by representatives of the UK software publishing industry, and by defenders of public service broadcasting. This article traces the debates that led to the decision, and the broader issues that it raises. It suggests that the initiative can be seen as symptomatic of the interpenetration of public and private imperatives that is characteristic of New Labour policy-making; but it also suggests that, when educational and cultural policy come together, there may be unresolved tensions between them.

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The BBC School Broadcasting Council and the Education System 1935–1971

Barclay

2021

Media History

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This article seeks to establish connections between histories of education and media by examining long-term institutional and structural factors. In order to establish a role for broadcasting in schools, the BBC formed a relationship with the educational world through advisory machinery called the Central Council for School Broadcasting (CCSB), later reconstituted as the School Broadcasting Council (SBC). In the key period of school broadcasting's development, between 1935 and 1971, the CCSB/SBC was unable to forge a strong relationship with the educational world. Internally, the BBC assumed control of school broadcasting at the expense of the CCSB/SBC. Developments in the early 1960s raised the possibility of fundamental reform. However this was prevented by factors including government policy on both school curricula and broadcasting, and indifference on the part of educationists. This article is largely based on unpublished archive documents.

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Closing a window on the world: Convergence and UK television services for schools

Cited by 3 publications

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Where did distance education go wrong?

Where did distance education go wrong?

Debating the Digital Curriculum: intersections of the public and the private in educational and cultural policy

The BBC School Broadcasting Council and the Education System 1935–1971

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