Broadcasting Education

For emphatic dissemination of knowledge, advanced communication technology is felt essential on the part of both developed and developing countries. Formal educational broadcasting was started by BBC in 1924. The Australian Broadcasting Company took an attempt for school broadcasting in 1929. The use of radio in education developed very fast in USA in the thirties.The FSBS devotes more than one-half of its radio output to educational and cultural broadcasts. Now almost all the countries world over have separate arrangements for educational broadcast departments. This book highlights importance of broadcasting in education. Broadcasting education, educational radio and television, media of mass communication, strategic roles for broadcasting, satellite instructional television experiment, listening and reading, social functions of press; and future of educational broadcasting like topics are competently discussed in this book.