This monograph describes program models as having a program quality support component and three chronological program components: entrance into a program, participation in a program, and re-engagement in learning. The four components that make up a program model are defined by principles. A principle describes a guiding assumption about how to…

This report provides a brief description of a 1985 conference on distance education together with the papers presented by six of the seven keynote speakers. It is noted that, in addition to these papers, the conference included 30 application sessions which allowed the 182 participants to select issues and topics to explore in small groups. The…

THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS ITS VIEWS ON EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOR ADULTS IN CANADA. IT ARGUES FOR AN IMMEDIATE PLAN OF CHANNEL RESERVATIONS ENTIRELY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES TO BE IMPLEMENTED THROUGHOUT CANADA IN BOTH VHF AND UHF. IT CALLS FOR AN ALL-CHANNEL BILL REQUIRING THAT ALL SETS SOLD IN CANADA BE CAPABLE OF…

Information regarding noncredit continuing education offerings for adults was gathered through on-site interviews conducted at ten institutions of higher education. Results are reported in the following areas: administrative structure, the developmental process for noncredit programs, program promotion, program evaluation, relationships between…

Findings and recommendations of a five-year demonstration project designed to clarify the role and organized structure of employee education and training in health care institutions are presented. In the first section of the book, hospitalwide education functions that were implemented at sixteen individual hospitals are examined. Identified are…

IN 1960, THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SET UP AN INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE PROGRAM FOR ADULT EDUCATORS, AND A PROGRAM FOR EVALUATING THE NEW CENTER FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION AND FOR COORDINATING RESEARCH RELATIVE TO THE GREAT PLAINS REGION. THE PROJECT WAS FUNDED BY THE KELLOGG FOUNDATION. DIRECTED BY DR. ALAN KNOX, WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE…

These proceedings contain the texts of the following four papers presented at a conference on research needs for extension education: "4-H Makes a Difference--Or Does It?" by Gerald Parsons; "Research Needs in the Administration and Supervision of Cooperative Extension," by Patrick Boyle; "Research Needs in Extension…

This 18th annual report to the United States Congress on federally funded education programs provides information on 117 programs, covering their activities as of September 30, 1988. Program descriptions are grouped under the appropriate administering office: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority…

This report presents a comparative analysis of five Asian systems that use communications technologies on a large scale for educational purposes. Part 1 provides background on the project and describes two meetings, one of which launched the project and a second, at which self-analyses were made. The national contexts of the systems and their…

A study was done to discover and generate a theory of instructional design based on procedures currently used in selected adult education agencies. The methodology used was to generate grounded theory in four stages as follows: (1) discovery of a number of categories into which the collected data are coded, (2) integration of the categories and…

This volume is a companion to "Adult Education: Outlines of an Emerging Field of University Study" (more commonly known as "the black book"), a classic work published in 1964. It explores the developments, accomplishments, and changes in the field since 1964 and charts new directions for research, theory, and practice in the study of adult…

One-hundred and fifty-one articles, dating frim 1952 to l964, comprise this third volume of selected articles from "Indian Education," a semi- MONTHLY FIELD LETTER PUBLISHED BY THE Bureau of Indian Affairs. The articles cover a wide range of elements affecting Indian educational attainment, such as cultural factors in Indian education, educational…

These proceedings consist of the following presentations and discussion papers: "Extension Research Needs in Evalaution" (Michael Patton); "Needed Research in Program Development" (Roger Lawrence); "The Cooperative Extension Service: A National Assessment" (Paul Warner); "National Study of Extension's Research…

This paper is a descriptive presentation of the state-of-the-art of competency-based adult education (CBAE). Readers are provided first with a brief history of the development of the concept and are presented with basic terminology. Then, because CBAE is multi-dimensional, varied notions of functional adult education are discussed and major…

This report compiles information from a study tour to identify the current status, development, and issues of nonprofit organizations with voluntary boards of management that provide adult and community-based education (ACE) in Australia. An overview of the community-based ACE sector covers organizations in South Australia, Western Australia,…