This chapter outlines the birth and growth of a veterans' program in Salt Lake City, Utah, and discusses next steps in spurring additional innovations and advancements to improve service for student veterans in community colleges.

The article analyzes the process of formation and development of corporate education in the USA in the first half of the twentieth century. It has been determined that the main prerequisites for the development of corporate education in the USA in the first half of the twentieth century were historical, socio-economic, political factors and…

Online degree programs were probably pioneered by for-profit universities such as University of Phoenix. Many online degree programs were initially considered low quality academic programs compared to traditional programs. Therefore, many public and private universities were slow to adopt the online programs. However, gradually more and more…

This article provides a systematic review of the emerging practice doctorate in social work. Based on the experience of the first such Doctor of Social Work (DSW) program, we provide information regarding the program origins and rationale, development, current structure, and future direction. Such information will enrich the discussion on the role…

Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority shows how to conduct evaluations within a DE framework. Patton draws on insights about complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, and emergence. He…

Many countries are challenged by the need to build both capacity and quality simultaneously in order to meet the accelerating needs of their society. Should what already exists be renovated, or should new institutions be created? Innovate from within or from without? Or perhaps some combination of both? In the U.S., postsecondary…

The leadership of Qatar has a social and political vision that calls for improving the outcomes of the Qatari K-12 education system. With this vision in mind, the leadership asked RAND to examine Qatar's K-12 education system, to recommend options for building a world-class system, and, subsequently, to develop the chosen option and support its…

Author discussed further education as a focus for experiment and innovation and stressed that true implementation of new ideas cannot be taken for granted. (Author/RK)

A discussion of rationale and design of a laboratory for students of social work for which the goal is to describe a training process that may be a beginning of a total program of social work education. (Author)

A discussion of rationale and design of a laboratory for students of social work for which the goal is to describe a training process that may be a beginning of a total program of social work education. (Author)

Considers a new approach to education, one which focused on the anthropological discipline. (Author/RK)

In order to facilitate more effective exchange between Canada and developing countries, a selective inventory of educational inventing in Canada has been compiled. A pilot survey produced a large number of educational innovations some of which were chosen for distribution in the inventory based on choices made by planning officers in developing…

The reform and reorganization of secondary education in Switzerland is proposed. (DE)