This year's E-Learn conference has numerous exciting presentations and keynotes. Many speakers will be discussing how education is changing in the forthcoming years. Among them are Dale Stephens who works with the social movement "Uncollege" that empower students to create their own education, Saul Carliner who talks about Massive Online…

This collection of speech summaries, workshop findings, and panel and discussion texts given by a total of 23 producers, programmers, performers, researchers, and writers, focuses on Canadian children's television. Introductory remarks by Nan-B. de Gaspe Beaubien are included with summaries of presentations by Sam Rabinovitch, James Dormeyer, Bob…

This conference record is organized according to the kinds of sessions that were held: general sessions, which include the keynote speech and the banquet speech; discussion groups, which were divided according to four topics--priorities, processes, products, and problems; the French group; and the annual banquet and business session. An appendix…

Presented in this document are a series of conference reports dealing with the future of education and the role of the child in education. Some of the topics discussed under the heading of "What Future?" include alternative curriculum directions, basic education, modes of education, economics as a primary determiner of educational…

This document presents proceedings of a 1977 Canadian conference on teacher education dealing with problems and issues in the evaluation of student teachers. Major presentations include (1) a discussion of issues involved in the evaluation of student teachers; (2) reaction of a panel of educators to this address and (3) questions directed to the…

The minutes of the May, 1974, meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) contain the texts of five presentations about Canadian research libraries. Descriptions of the National Library of Canada, the National Science Library, and Canadian University Libraries and their associations are followed by a discussion of the problems…

The monograph grew out of the Critical Issues Conference sponsored by the Ontario Council for Leadership in Educational Administration (OCLEA). At the one-day conference, 57 researchers and practitioners discussed the ten major areas of research and development needs. These areas, identified in advance of the conference, were leadership and…

This report summarizes the proceedings of a September 1975 conference of Commonwealth educators, who deliberated on the following issues involving educational materials: (1) variety and potential uses; (2) design and production; (3) use in teaching and learning situations; (4) programs for training and supervision for efficient use; and (5)…

The proceedings contain transcripts of speeches, panel discussions, and plenary sessions dealing with various aspects of cable broadcasting. The speeches include: Community Television--Future Potential, John deMercado; Reaction to Dr. deMercado's speech, Diane Abbey Livingston; The Guelph Communications Project, William Foss; An Outline for the…

The proceedings from the Toronto Conference present an overview of domestic violence, the roles of the police and judicial system, male/female relationships in domestic violence, the clinical treatment of domestic violence, domestic violence and education, social services, and a bibliography on battered wives. The multi-dimensionality of, and the…

This document presents summaries of eleven speeches, a workshop, and one panel discussion presented at the First Annual High School Sports Conference sponsored by the British Columbia Federation of School Athletic Associations during 1976. Topics discussed in the speeches include: (1) the role of competition in extra-mural sports; (2) Title IX and…

Five American Educational Research Association symposium papers (1979) are provided. "The Program Analysis Phase of Instructional Systems Design: Details of Phase II" (E. Curtis) describes the program analysis subsystem within the context of a systematic approach to instructional design, and reviews the process of carrying out such an…

The Workshop on Instructional Development was one of a number of workshops organized on various issues concerning teaching and learning in the Ontario universities. It was held in an attempt to provide some exchange of information among the Ontario universities on the organized activities initiated on their campuses concerned with improving…

The papers in this document follow the order of the meeting and consist of two guest lecturers and reports from four working groups; two topic group presentations are noted but not included. One lecture, delivered by Peter Hilton, discusses the nature of mathematics today and implications for mathematics teaching, while, in the other paper,…

The two-day Canadian conference focused on the topics: "Why are new concepts of work emerging?" and "How can we encourage desirable new work concepts in our society?" Following an introductory summary by David P. Ross, Stephen Peitchinis (Dean, School of Business Administration, University of Calgary) presented the economic…