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{{Short description|Use of audiovisual broadcasts in distance education}}

'''Instructional television''' ('''ITV''') is the use of television programs in the field of [[Social:Distance education|distance education]]. [[Engineering:Educational television|Educational television]] programs on instructional television may be less than one half hour long (generally 15 minutes in length) to help their integration into the classroom setting. These shows are often accompanied by teachers' guides that include material to help use this program in lessons. Instructional television programs have historically been shown during the daytime on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations in the {{wipe|United States}}. However, fewer public television stations devote their airtime to ITV today than they did in the past; these days, ITV programs are either seen on a [[Engineering:Digital subchannel|digital subchannel]] of [[Engineering:Non-commercial educational|non-commercial educational]] public television station, or passed on to a local educational-access television channel run by a [[Engineering:Public, educational, and government access|public, educational, and government access]] (PEG) cable TV organization.

Instructional television has been granted 20 microwave channels, administered by local educational institutions, through a service known in the US as ITFS, or Instructional Television Fixed Service.  Instructional television may also be programmed on [[Engineering:Terrestrial television|terrestrial television]] stations.

==See also==

* Agency for Instructional Technology ''-- ITV program distributor''
* Annenberg Foundation (Annenberg Channel)
* Washington County Closed-Circuit Educational Television Project
* William M. Brish, a leader of closed circuit instructional television in public school elementary classrooms.
* Educational films
* [[Engineering:Educational television|Educational television]]

== External links ==
* [http://nebsa.org/ National Educational Broadband Services (EBS) Organization] ''(formerly the National [[Educational Broadband Service|ITFS]] Association)''
* Edwin G. Cohen had a distinguished career in educational and instructional television from 1955 to 1990. His positions included program associate for the Educational Television and Radio Center, director of the National Instructional Television Film Library, and executive director of the Agency for Instructional Television and its successor, Agency for Instructional Technology. [https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/2/resources/686 His papers] are housed at the University of Maryland Libraries

[[Category:Television terminology]]


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