This paper examines several correspondence schools that developed courses in advertising for young men and women who were interested in learning about the subject but who were not necessarily interested in attending a college or university. In addition, the paper discusses the founding of the National Home Study Council, which developed standards…

Using a collection of settler family letters to the Elementary Correspondence School (ECS) in British Columbia, the first provincial government--supported "schooling by mail" arrangement of its kind in Canada, I highlight the efforts of rural families to secure an education for their children in the period between the First and Second…

Tracing the correspondence composition courses taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from 1912 to 1924, this essay argues that examining distance education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries can reveal possible problems or solutions to issues composition instructors face in twenty-first-century debates about moving…

Background: Correspondence schools abounded in early 20th-century America. Several hundred for-profit vendors drew the vast majority of the annual enrollments, which peaked at one half million in the mid-1920s. Dozens of well-known universities created home study departments to expand their "extension" work. The handful of good studies…

Brief histories of each of the National Home Study Council's schools are provided. They include statements explaining program intent and the type of courses offered. (AG)

Discusses both state and private Correspondence Institutes in Finland. (GB)

A compilation of schedules of colleges and universities offering correspondence instruction to military personnel through USAFI, is presented. Responsibility for the content of courses rests with the particular college or university offering them. Course numbers, course titles, number of lessons, credit, and enrollment fees listed are effective…

The University of South Africa is the country's only multiracial schools and also the world's largest correspondence college. (Author/PG)

This bibliography lists writings on correspondence education originally collected for use in staff training and provides examples of the thoughts and experiences of practitioners, as well as of courseware and administrative material. Some emphasis is given to the theory and practice of student attrition. Entries are arranged by author, topic, and…

The primary contents of this volume include: (1) the minutes of the 1967 Annual Meeting of the European Council for Education by Correspondence (CEC); (2) the code of ethics for member schools adopted at that meeting; and (3) three addresses concerning various correspondence study (CS) areas. The first address discusses the history, organization,…

The Federal School was a correspondence art school in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the early 20th century. At that time, scientific methods changed the organization and practice of commercial art training and industrial education, which included correspondence courses from the Federal School. Standards of intelligence were determined with…

A look at how the educational system in New Zealand uses media for correspondence study. (HB)

Specific recommendations are made with regard to the standard of correspondence schools. (Author)

In 1969, more than 5 million Americans were enrolled in correspondence courses. Most of the courses provided some kind of vocational training for students wishing to move up the job ladder. (BC)