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Initial Pilot Program

In 2001, the Educational Services Department of Rhode Island PBS conducted a Video Streaming Pilot Program that included 12 Rhode Island public schools. The pilot video streamed Instructional Television Programming (ITV) to schools' classrooms by using the Internet. This pilot program proved a great success therefore Rhode Island PBS decided to extend its Video Streaming Program to all Rhode Island schools.

For information about how to participate in the Rhode Island PBS Video Streaming Program, please call (401) 222-3636 or e-mail Education@RIpbs.org.

"Enhancing GED Instruction through the Use

of Video-On-Demand"

GED Pilot Program

GED instructors from the Cranston Alternate Program who participated in the GED Pilot Project.

It is a goal of Rhode Island PBS to extend the Video Streaming Curriculum Program Services to areas of identified need such as the teaching and learning of GED content through Video Streaming technology.

In 2007, Rhode Island PBS proposed the Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education - Adult Education, to conduct the pilot project, "Enhancing GED Instruction through the Use of Video-On-Demand" to explore the feasibility of providing Rhode Island's GED population with relevant digital curriculum content, and to explore potential utilization of additional GED content when available on video streaming. The proposed pilot project is presently being conducted with a sample of 42 GED teachers and instructors (and their students) statewide.

Pilot Project Deadline: Until completed

Eligibility

GED teachers and instructors (and their students) working or residing in the State of Rhode Island are eligible to participate in this pilot project. Participants must attend three training sessions of four hours each, submit two student utilization reports by established deadlines, and share with other GED teachers the work product from training. In addition, participants must participate through an adult education and literacy services agency or family literacy services agency offering GED classes and recognized by the Rhode Island Department of Education. If you are eligible and wish to participate in this pilot project, please e-mail Education@RIpbs.org

Purpose

a) Make the GED Connection series available through Video-On-Demand to adult learners pursuing a GED certificate.

b) Help build teachers' technology skills as applied to the teaching and learning of GED.

c) Offer additional learning tools to GED adult learners so they may become better informed and more highly skilled within Rhode Island's labor force. This pilot project has the additional purpose of helping to evaluate Video Streaming utilization of the GED Connection series by GED teachers and students, and particularly, the impact that this technology may have when used as an additional GED teaching and learning tool.

Goals

a) The primary goal of this pilot project is to identify potential student use of the GED Connection series available through video stream and to help increase technology skills of GED teachers and instructors through training and development sessions on potential uses of Video Streaming.

b) Encourage effective integration of technology resources and systems and GED classes.

c) Establish research-based instructional methods that can be widely implemented as best practices by state and local educational agencies.

d) Build a common database available online to GED teachers, and develop a student home assignment, a pre-test and a post-test, and a practice quiz on each of the 39 GED Connection episodes.

e) Make Video Streaming available for the improvement of GED instruction and increased access by adults pursuing a GED credential.