Word: beckel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nerve Center. The advantage of television, contends Scarborough Dean W. E. Beckel, is that "we can make a small number of really first-class professors available to the widest group of students." Scarborough's nerve center is a main television-production studio (60 ft. by 50 ft.) and five adjacent smaller studios. The network can handle eleven instructional programs at a time, covering 50 classrooms. Except for educational films, Scarborough produces all of its own TV instructional material, 60% of it on Videotape...
...college employs eleven fulltime television specialists, from producers to electronics repairmen, to man its studios. Most professors give two lectures a week on television. Dean Beckel sees an advantage in the ability to add graphics and photographic illustrations to the lectures of what he calls the "semi-live" professors. Television is not suitable, he concedes, for such subjects as English composition, French recitation, math drills and problem-solving in the sciences. But otherwise, he says, "you at least get no worse results than by face-to-face instruction...