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FOSHAY, ARTHUR W. – 1963
OVER A PERIOD OF 21 YEARS THE HORACE MANN-LINCOLN INSTITUTE HAS UNDERGONE MANY CHANGES. ITS ORIGINAL PURPOSE, FIELD EXPERIMENTATION, WAS SOMEWHAT FORMALIZED INTO ACTION RESEARCH, THE IDEA BEING THAT RESEARCH IN CONJUNCTION WITH ACTION MIGHT AMOUNT TO AN EDUCATIONAL FORM OF THE WAR-TIME "OPERATIONS RESEARCH." GRADUALLY, THE INSTITUTE…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Educational Technology, Experimental Programs
Bullard, Richard F., Ed. – 1968
These 17 curriculum studies by faculty members of San Joaquin Delta Junior College were funded under Title III of The Higher Education Act of 1965. They were intended to help initiate new courses, improve existing ones, or plan for future ones. Each project report gave its objective(s), the general methods for its development and completion, the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Experimental Programs, Innovation
California State Colleges, Inglewood. Office of the Chancellor. – 1969
The Experimental College in California as defined in this report is (1) esentially an extension of the regular faculty-proposed curricula; (2) distinctly a student activity; or (3) a combination of these two. A 1968 report outlined in detail the structure of each Experimental College. This report only summarizes that aspect and updates the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Evaluation, Experimental Colleges
Axelrod, Joseph – 1969
In this report of a project on curriculum planning, a new language is developed for analyzing and describing "the curricular-instructional subsystem." Some of the data come from the author's experiences in planning and directing the Experimental Freshman-Year Program (EFP) at San Francisco State College, but most were collected at the…
Descriptors: Activism, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research
BERG, M. MAJELLA – 1967
THE EXPERIMENTAL, ENRICHED, LIBERAL ARTS PROGRAM AT MARYMOUNT COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA IS AN ATTEMPT TO INTRODUCE INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES IN THE TEACHING OF SEVERAL LIBERAL ARTS COURSES. ENGLISH, HISTORY, LANGUAGE, AND PHILOSPHY TEACHERS ARE EXPERIMENTING WITH A VARIETY OF INNOVATIVE AND INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAMS. IN ONE OF THESE EXPERIMENTS, FRESHMEN…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Curriculum Development, Enrichment Activities, Experimental Programs
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Vezzoli, Carlo; Penin, Lara – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: This paper aims to diffuse the concept of a multi-lateral learning process as a means to promote experimental didactics and research (and the cross-fertilization between these two activities) in the field of design of sustainable product-service systems (PSSs) and to consider the university campus as the locus for the design,…
Descriptors: Innovation, Internet, Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development