TV is feasible for Regular Graduate Courses

Abstract

During the first semester of 1960-61 at the University of Wisconsin an experiment in education by TV has been conducted by the University in co-operation with Wisconsin industries. The occasion for this particular experiment was that travel between Milwaukee and Madison by the E.E. staff for the E.E. Department's part-time graduate program in Milwaukee has grown to be so burdensome that the Department has been reevaluating the program in terms of effort expended and results obtained. This reevaluation led to general dissatisfaction with the educational validity of graduate courses run once a week for a period of 2-1/ 2 hours in the evening. A first attempt to improve the program involved beginning the session at 4:30 P.M. (instead of 7:20 P.M. which had been the starting time). This change brought some improvement, but feeling remained general that performance was still inadequate.