Describes how the Educational Software short course produced by the Open University Micros in Schools project trains inservice teachers to select suitable educational software for classroom use. Findings of a formative evaluation of an activity in the course in which teachers examined three commercially produced educational software packages are…

Describes "How to Study Effectively," the first distance learning course in the United Kingdom to teach learning skills to higher education students; reports on course evaluation which elicited opinions on courses, completion rates, and enrollment motives of three student groups enrolled in 1972. Case studies of three students are…