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DOCUMENT RESUME AUTHOR TITLE 10P.; Paper Presented at The DOCUMENT RESUME ED 261,653 IR 011 800 AUTHOR Gillies, Donald J. TITLE Vic,:3otexand Teletext: Teaching and Learning.An International Survey. PUB DATE [Oct 83]- NOTE, 10p.; Paper preSented at the Canadian Symposiumon Instructional.Technology (4th, Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada; October 19-21, 1983)'. PUB TYPE Reports - Research /Technical (143)-- Speeches /Conference Papers (150) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Poitage. .. DESCRIPTORS *Computers; Databases; Foreign Countries; *Information Networks; Information Services; National Surveys; *Television; *Use Studies; *VideoteX: IDENTIFIERS *Canada;'England; France; West Germany ABSTRACT This report summarizes the results ofan international survey on the utilization of videotex and teletext which covered 20 countries, including Canada, Great Britain,France, Holland, Switzerland, the United States, and West Germany. Included are: (1) definitions and a comparison of the two media;. (2) the Methods 'used to collect the,data (interviews, document studies, and literature searches); (3) secOndary literature,sources on videotex and teletext, including three computerized data bases-.-ERIC, Computerindext and Pascal; (4) international composition and noneducational emphasis of two videotex conferences; (5) general and educational applications of videOtex and teletext inCanada, including specific data on government, academic, and, private . institutions' involvement with the two media;. and (6)&summary of international data, including a world total. EffeCtive educational uses for videotex and teletext are briefly discussed and suggestions are made for more educational utilization of these media. Acknowledgements and a list of 27 references complete thepaper. (JB) **********************t*****i****************************************** ReproductiOnssupplied by EDRSare the best that can be made from the original document. * *********************************************************************** BEST COPY AVAILABLE U.S.Die'ARTMENTOFEDUCATION NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CEhTERIERI6 VIDEOTEX AND TELETEXT: TEACHING AND LEARNING AN INTERNATIONAL.SURVEY Thisdocument has been reproduced as received from thepersonor organisatron originating Knot changes havebeen nudeto improve .Donald"J. Sillies reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this dm Professor of Communications. merit do not necessarily represent official NIE position or p4acy, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute Torc-to, Ontario, Canada The'Context Of This Research Both videotex and teletext present visual The research on which I am reporting is an information on the screen of an adapted' off-shoot of my principal currentresearch television receiver (and'some other video project: A Technological History of the Beginnings display terminals). There is as yet no sound (2), of Videotex and Teletext. Part of my teaching'it and the images are still fram's (althoughsome Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto is in simple animation is possible)., the Instructional Media Program. As a result I am always interested in technological innovations Videotex is an interactive closed-circuit which appeerto have instructional applications system which allow-, the user toselect, in, his I include here videotex and teletext. In home, office, school or other:site, a "page", addition to these two streams of interest, there i.e., a full television screen, of information is a third: I was the first Director of a stored in a central computer or computedata Telidonil) Public Initiatives Program Project in banks., Thiathoice and the information chosen, which Ryerson's Nutrition Information Service each flow through the switched telephone network. produced a Food and NutritionlInformation Teletext is an interactive one-way Directory which became part of the d: ,a base for transmission system broadcast as a television the Bell Canada - Infomart "Viste field trial of signal usingan ihkg,Lible unused portion of T'elidon in' Toronto and Cap, Rouge, Quebec. My existing television signals, the vertical general interest in videotex and teletext arises blanking interval. fhe "blank" referred to is from these three divergent points. They converge easy to see if the vertical hold control on a specifically on the research I report'on here. television receiver is adjusted so that thegap The Research Data between the two picture frames is visible. If. a teletext signal is being carried in the Before giving the details of my research vertical blanking interval, the three-line activities in preparation' for my observations teletext information packet willbn clearly and conclusions, I will explain briefly what visible. videotex and teletext are. '"PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY nnnald J. PI-lilies 2 TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC),t' ^. 348AJJA:VA vtlot) 'read Videotex and teletext may have a common data and representativesz.of private industry at all base or separate data bases. In both cases the livels:' more than seventy subjects, many kinds of information available are quite varied- interviewed several times. popular, journalistic, professional, academic, A General Impression business- directed, commercial, statistical, From these interviews I am left with the personal, and may inalude cdnfidential data clear geniral impression that those concerned accessible only to deSignated "closed user with videotex and teletext at the earliest groups", e.g., doctors, lawyers, social workers, periOd were strongly committed to a fully banks. This material is made available for interactive use of these media. In particular, transmission by what is called "information videotex was seen as a true person-to-person providers". Nominally, at least, any individual means of communication.- This, aspect of videotex or organization can be an information provider. isgetting very little attention. from any of its Since my main research, approach is histori- developers in any country. In other words,:one cal, I have been using both primary-and secondary of the basic possible functioni of the medium . sources beginningin the late 1960's, when all has teen largely ignored.This point will be this began: research into the notion of a shared referred to below. It has significance for camnon visual space and the combining of three understanding both the nature of the users of common electronic information devices: the videotex and'Celetaxt and the use to which tney' telephone, the television receiver'and the are being put. computer. Documents "Research Activities , In my quest for original research.and policy My research has followed standard patterns: documents I have'been able to see most of what I interviews have asked er. 3)' the study of documents The Literature of Videotex and Teletext. literature searches Secondary sources on videotex and teletext Besides Canada, my research hasleen are plentiful. In particular, three computerized carried out in Britain, Fradce, M011and, data bases - E.R.I.C., Computerindex and Pascal Switzerland, the United States and West Germany, are very valuable. Ihave about six hundred including West Berlin.'.1 have interviewed most citations, in six languages, in this field.. of the major participants involved since the beginning (and mainly still involved): scientists, General Applications vs. Educational Application's technologists, techniciani, ministers, deputy Videotex '83. What has become the major ministers and other public officials, academics annual videotex event was held in Hew York'in June - "Videotex '83". There'were eighty-one institutions/systemi. A Federal Government presentations, given by speaker3 from the United Telidon official reports that twenty-one colleges States (the majority), Canada, Britain, Brazil, and universities in Canada are using or research- Australia, and the CommisSion for the European ing Telidon technology (p).I have rot been able Communities: None of the presentations' gave to uncover all twenty -one, but here are some of significant attention to education. them. -- Videotex Europe. This cdnferenCe takes place The Electrical Engineering Division of the in November. Seventy-onepresentations are National Research Council of Canada: Telidon announced, with speakers from Holland, West and "Natal ", the high-level National Authoring Language. Germany, France, Britain, the United States, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Australia, Italy, Sweden The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and and Austria. None appears to deal in any way the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa: with education. videotex for hzalthcare. Systemhouse,,Ltd., Ottawa:-VideoteX (along Countries Using Videotex and/or Teletext with other media) for the management of Canada: Videotex: General Applications. In educatiOn: Canada I have found twenty-eight videotex appiica. , The Open Learning Institute, Richmond, B.C., Lions.' These are some of general - purpose -Division.of Educational TechnOlogy: Telidon applications; all use Telidon, unless otherwise in the context of distance education. stated: Alphatel Systems, Edmonton: Telidon and National: Federal Government, "Can Tel" microcomputers (i). Teleglobe Canada, "Novatex" The Department of Communications hAs reported Telecom Canada, "iNet" service, on education and Telidon (7).'` It describes these also alpha-numeric. projecti.. 'e British Columbia, BCTe1 The University of Calgary: linking Tel Saskatchewan, SaskTel, "Pathfinder" with the University's teleconferencing system Manitoba, Manitoba Telephone System, 'Project using the
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