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Hymel, Glenn M. – 1981
This paper describes the Loyola Center for Educational Improvement's (LCEI) effort to develop a clearinghouse on mastery learning (CML) which would serve as a depository for conceptual and research documents on mastery learning, competency-based education, instructional design, and other related topics. The nature of the clearinghouse is defined…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Competency Based Education, Databases, Educational Research
Cooke, Gwen C.; Verloo, Nona – VocEd, 1984
California's Vocational and Occupational Information Center for Educators (VOICE), which provides instructors, administrators, and others involved in planning and operating vocational education programs with a variety of resources for improving instruction, is examined. The authors discuss access to this database, computer searches, consultant…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Centers, Information Services, Occupational Information
Magisos, Joel H.; Berkebile, Lonnie A. – 1971
The purpose of this project was to develop computer techniques for the production of VT-ERIC publications and to report these techniques so that they might be used by other ERIC Clearinghouses for production of their publications. The Clearinghouse needed to: (1) generate bibliographies from its own collection upon which to base information…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Databases, Guides, Information Centers
Stevenson, Michael; Walleri, R. Dan – 1983
The role of institutional research in the creation and operation of an information center is discussed, along with the ways in which the spread of information centers within higher education is likely to influence the future development of institutional research. Forces leading to the emergence of information centers are advances in computer…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Databases
Adams, Veronica M.; Plosker, George R. – Searcher, 1997
Provides specific tips and guidelines for information professionals who are currently administering, or who plan to introduce, end-user search programs. Discusses the reference interview, evaluation of information sources, electronic database standards, pragmatics of access, electronic search strategies, and the role of the information center.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, Evaluation Criteria, Guidelines
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Wax, David M.; Vaughan, Patricia E. – 1977
The Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC) program, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the New England Board of Higher Education, experimented in using a regional organization to develop an intermediary role in the process of providing machine-readable bibliographic search services to the academic research…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Databases, Information Centers, Information Retrieval
Niemi, John A. – 1976
The paper, presented at a four-State adult education regional institute, first presents some problems in developing curricula for adult and continuing education, drawing distinctions between the terms "curriculum" (content-centered, credit offerings) and "program" (learner-centered, or problem-centered, non-credit offerings).…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Databases