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Speaking as a guest lecturer before the Cambridge Forum, Caroll G. Bowen, research associate at MIT, said that "it took Sesame Street to prove what can be done with instructional mechanisms...
...Bowen said that the influence of such devices such as cable television and video-tape machines is potentially as powerful as television, which consumes 54 per cent of the waking hours of the average American adult...
...boons of "packaged" instruction cited by Bowen is that it allows the opportunity for self-paced education, which is not possible in a formalized class structure...
...Bowen said that the biggest problem of establishing technical educational programs is not the hardware but the "software," which includes the high cost of preparing course work. For technical instruction to work, he said that the software requires twice the lead time and three to ten times the cost of the mechanisms...
...tape of Bowen's lecture will be broadcast on WGBH-FM from 9 to 10:30 p.m. tonight...