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Pohland, Paul A. – 1987
The Village College is a uniquely English institution, yet it may be a viable model for rural education in some parts of the United States as well. If so, four adaptations seem paramount: attitudinal restructuring, institutionalization of adult and community education, a demography capable of supporting the effort, and a new model of educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning
Download full textBates, A. W. – 1984
This position paper explores the potential of new technology to radically alter both distance education and conventional higher education. It hypothesizes that technological developments could even lead to the demise of the conventional campus-based higher education institution by the year 2000. Instead, people of all ages would be able to study…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Change, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries
Estes, Nolan, Ed.; And Others – 1990
This two-part anthology of research summaries examines the potential of magnet schools to provide equal education and educational access for minority group children and reviews successful magnet programs. Part 1, "Magnet Schools, Desegregation, and Choice," contains the following chapters: (1) "Using Magnet Schools for…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Bates, A. W. – 1981
This paper describes how audiovisual media have influenced the way students have learned--or failed to learn--at the Open University at Walton Hall. The paper is based in part on results from a large body of research that has repeatedly demonstrated the interrelatedness of a wide range of factors in determining how or what students learn from…
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Audiovisual Aids, Distance Education, Educational Radio
Peer reviewedGeller, Daniel M.; Shugoll, Mark – AEDS Journal, 1985
Describes a study which assessed impact of computer assisted instruction on reading and mathematics achievement of disadvantaged youths participating in US Department of Labor's Job Corps, a federal vocational and educational program. Greater reading achievement gains but no statistically significant mathematics gains were found in experimental…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth, Individualized Education Programs
Holmberg, Borje – 1985
A questionnaire developed in six languages--English, French, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish--was mailed to more than 1,500 organizations known by the FernUniversitat in West Germany to be connected in some way to distance education, correspondence education, or home study. The study was undertaken as a response to the lack of systematic…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Continuous Progress Plan, Correspondence Study, Developing Nations
Holzman, Lois; Strickland, Gloria – 1988
The STOP Abusive Behavior Syndrome (STOP ABS) Project attempts to implement a community-based discipline model for inner-city elementary schools that avoids both physical and emotional abuse by teachers and students, while contributing to the students' overall development. Prevailing disciplinary models either relate to children as objects to be…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Discipline, Discipline Policy, Educational Environment
