Learning on ScreenSurprise Solution: Cyclops
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: How to avoid the agonies of removing a dressing; the expense of replacing a water pump that’s dropped from a corroded pipe. How students spread throughout the country can have a classroom discussion - some surprise solutions. In Britain, anybody can take a degree course in their spare time by watching lectures on TV and writing essays by post. But Open University students meet only rarely and have little opportunity to discuss work problems with each other. Now a new computer, which codifies pictures and symbols into a form of morse code recorded on cassette acts like a long-distance blackboard. Students scattered throughout Britain can hold group discussions and share learning experiences by writing to each other on their own personal blackboard.
- Keywords
- Education and training; Communications; Science and technology; Computers and computing; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/273
- Credits:
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
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