This design case chronicles a photography assignment starting with its origins in the master's level lab of a communications design program in Taiwan's National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, directed by Jalin Huang. We follow this assignment through its adaptation for a basic media development course taught by Professor Elizabeth…

The demand for qualified information technology professionals remains high despite downturns in the economy. It is imperative to provide students with a curriculum that provides a broad foundation in information technology knowledge, skills, and abilities. Students also need access to specialized technologies and learning materials to develop the…

This final report describes activities in 1979-80 of the project, Vocational Education Information Services (VEIS), which supported vocational education dissemination in Indiana. The narrative section is divided into sections corresponding to the five project objectives: (1) publish and distribute six special reports and four issues of the…

The purpose of Project Update was to design and implement resource assistance activities to get 310 special projects into the hands of the adult basic education (ABE) classroom teacher and to provide inservice activities to ABE practitioners in Central Indiana. An advisory committee was established to counsel project personnel. To keep ABE…

In order to meet the career investigation needs of younq adults of Hispanic origin, a project was conducted in Indiana to adapt an audiovisual vocational interest test (the Comparative Career Search) to the Spanish language and to adapt the visuals so that 50 percent of the work roles were of persons of Hispanic origin. A listing of the…

The major objective of the three-year project reported here was to develop a long-range planning and management system for a comprehensive health occupations education program for the State of Indiana. The body of the report is a summary outline of the project's three components, each of which corresponded to one of the three objectives: (1) to…

A project was undertaken to develop and validate English-as-a-second-language (ESL) materials for use with the occupational knowledge section of the Indiana adult basic education (ABE) curriculum guide, "Learning for Everyday Living." Developed during the project were 10 units designed to develop the ESL skills necessary to understand…

This final report presents five products of a health occupations project conducted (1) to update health occupations data, (2) to field test a performance-based curriculum in secondary programs, and (3) to develop materials (domain-referenced tests) to predetermine student and/or job incumbent competencies prior to entrance into a developed…