Describes the Chinese plan for eliminating adult illiteracy in rural areas. Program planning, implementation and evaluation procedures, as well as administrative organization, program funding, and teacher training are discussed. (AM)

Discusses development of a multi-media learning center at Illinois Institute of Technology, focusing on strategy used to obtain National Science Foundation funding and the center's operation. The latter includes hardware, location and physical layout, courseware, public relations, staffing, student use, and future endeavors. Also provides an…

Development and dissemination of a multimedia inservice education package on language development for those working with mentally handicapped children are described. The package was used to train teachers, nurses, psychologists, and other social service personnel in a variety of settings. Three elements critical for the success of this package are…

Health educators can encourage educational institutions and other organizations to develop programs that teach people to deal with sexual harassment. Such programs should: (1) build awareness of the problem; (2) help define suitable workplace behavior; and (3) develop skills, such as self-assertiveness, to ward off offensive behavior. (PP)

Secondary school administrators can use local community colleges as resources in several ways: as showplaces of diverse uses for computers, links to the needs of business regarding computing skills, participants in concurrent enrollment programs, and providers of staff development courses and computing services. (Author/JM)

The authors describe their positive experience in collaboration--the development and provision of an eight-week summer clinical practicum that allows nursing students to practice in the hospital daily with a faculty person. (Author/CT)

Issues in the development of community health education programs for rural areas include: (1) knowledge of disease processes; (2) health care intervention; (3) systems intervention; (4) ethics for change; and (5) program implementation. (JN)

Presents results of research to identify and examine community-based, family violence intervention programs in the United States which provide alternatives to incarceration of assaulters. Describes different approaches used by programs and aspects of program development such as staffing, funding, community support, and program evaluation. (MJL)

Discusses ways of providing training for educators in the operation and instructional applications of microcomputers on a large scale basis, and draws on the experiences of the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) for examples of successful networking activities. (Author/MER)

The director of education for the National Urban League discusses urban education needs, the negative feelings of Blacks toward vocational education, and the need for a coalition of vocational education advocates with positive attitudes toward Black participation in vocational programs with community support. (MF)

An inventory of public school teachers revealed a consensus of what they considered the primary sources of stress. As a result of the survey, a cooperative program of stress reduction was organized focusing on stress-producing problems and developing strategies to overcome them. (JD)

Describes the development and implementation of Lincoln Land Community College's energy awareness program, focusing on: (1) resource management to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels on campus; (2) programs encouraging energy conservation and the production of alcohol fuels; (3) leadership in the field; and (4) planning energy-related…

Outlines a procedure for designing an industrial skills training program in which the trainer prepares a job analysis by actually learning about the job duties and equipment; writes instructional objectives for each equipment section; and combines sets of job photos, scripts, objectives, and other information into a study guide for trainees. (MF)

Virginia has developed a state training program for student financial aid administrators. It is coordinated with two previously separate programs, is cost efficient, and has resolved the issues of who should train, what materials should be included, when training should be conducted, and where training should occur. (JMD)

The first stage of an evaluation and academic management project to be carried out at Bath University is presented. Included are the background to course evaluation, a proposed model, the development and testing of the model in the context of an innovative biology course at Queen's University, and the transferability of the model to other courses.…