Details relevant to the operation of the Association for Continuing Education (ACE) for the year ending June 30, 1973 are presented. ACE is a non-profit corporation offering live, televised courses to employees of cooperating firms in the San Francisco area. Using the television facilities of Stanford University, instructional programs are…

The major premise of this paper is that morale in retirement is achieved through involvement in intellectual, social, and physical experiences which are meaningful to the person and his social milieu. The paper posits that these experiences are to be found in continuing education. Presented are 12 hypotheses dealing with old age and the process of…

The Dallas County Community College District, in conjunction with Amarillo College, has been charged with establishing a task force to develop a comprehensive plan of educational alternatives for senior citizens in the State of Texas. This paper is a report on the subsequent proposals made by this task force. Using the goals of the Educational…

In a period of declining on-campus student enrollment, many postsecondary institutions are turning to off-campus continuing education programs as a means of helping to alleviate on-campus problems. This article is a cursory analysis of the salient problems faced by off-campus programs in regard to on-campus politics, and the maintenance of…

The Continuing Education faculty at the University of Colorado School of Nursing considers the evaluation of the long range effects of their continuing education courses a major concern as well as a problem area. (Author)

From this survey conducted in Skipton, England, it appears that personal influence is more likely to assist recruitment in adult education classes among residents on private estates than on council estates. (Author/MB)

Explains the eight areas of change involved in the switch from conventional'' to more individualized, objective-oriented instruction. (SP)

Explains the eight areas of change involved in the switch from conventional'' to more individualized, objective-oriented instruction. (SP)

In order to provide comparative data that could serve as a basis upon which to develop continuing education honoraria policies, a survey was conducted in 1974-75 of pertinent practices of the 81 AACP member colleges. Results and suggestions are presented. (LBH)

Presents both positive and negative opinions on the Continuing Education Unit (CEU), a unit of measurement corresponding to ten contact hours of participation in an adult education program. Concludes that the CEU is firmly established and its utilization will continue to grow, but that further evaluation is still needed. (MLH)

This document contains two case studies of Czechoslovakian adult education: (1) Czechoslovakian Adult Education (Skoda) and (2) the House of Culture and Its Function in Adult Education (Hartl). Each study begins with a "face sheet" on which is recorded basic information about the entity studied and the case study itself. About half of…

The purpose of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching is to recognize and enhance teaching as an art and as a profession, by providing career school teachers with opportunities to study advanced topics in the sciences, arts, and humanities, to engage in informed discourse, and otherwise to pursue scholarly interest. The Center…