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Creative, yet Practical: 20 Years of Distance Education Teacher Preparation
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Jordan, LuAnn; Spooner, Fred; Anderson, Kelly; Dillon, Ann S. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2019
For more than 20 years, distance education has provided an option for prospective special education teachers to achieve licensure and a graduate degree. The program began as a two-way interactive television endeavor located at area community college sites. Over time, the program evolved to include online coursework with synchronous class meetings.…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Students with Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Certification
"Design for All in the Context of the Information Society": Integration of a Specialist Course in a Generalist M.Sc. Program in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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Godino-Llorente, J. I.; Fraile, R.; Gonzalez de Sande, J. C.; Osma-Ruiz, V.; Saenz-Lechon, N. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2012
This paper describes an educational research experience that took place in the Electrical & Electronics Engineering Master's program offered at the Escuela Universitaria de Ingenieria Tecnica de Telecomunicacion, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. The focus is to provide details of the motivation behind and the design and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Educational Research, Community Colleges, Masters Programs
Dual Enrollment: A Strategy to Improve College-Going and College Completion among Rural Students
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Zinth, Jennifer Dounay – Education Commission of the States, 2014
Research shows that students who participate in dual enrollment are more likely than their peers to finish high school, enter college and complete a degree. This means dual enrollment can greatly benefit students in rural areas, which report lower college-going and postsecondary attainment rates than other locales. However, rural areas face unique…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Career Education, Technical Education, Community Colleges
Expanding Access and Quality in Uganda: The Challenges of Building a Plane while Flying It
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Cutright, Marc – International Education, 2010
Uganda is among many nations in sub-Saharan Africa that are trying simultaneously to expand higher education opportunities and to enhance the quality of higher-education offerings. These are particularly challenging goals in resource-rich environments and are even more difficulty in environments of more limited resources to include funding,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Doing Their Best: Exemplary Graduate Leadership Programs.
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Bragg, Debra D. – Community College Journal, 2002
Presents an overview of exemplary community college graduate leadership programs. Discusses general trends in graduate curriculum (e.g., cohort-based programs with course work in leadership development, organizational change, diversity, and institutional development) and outlines 10 graduate programs that offer a focus in community college…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Community Colleges, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Study
Cooperative Programs with Business and Community. Forum, Volume II, Number 7, May 1980.
Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1980
Degree programs for adults that are offered by colleges and universities jointly with noneducational organizations, such as businesses, unions, hospitals, local governments, and community organizations are considered. An article by Murray Frank traces the history of the concept of community service by colleges, describes the experiences of the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Apprenticeships