MegaSoTL projects are scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects that generate evidence of learning from multiple institutions. While being increasingly practiced, MegaSoTL projects and their potential contribution to improve higher education pedagogy remain understudied in higher education literature. In this article, we introduce…

This article provides an overview of ECEC services in France for children under three. It reviews research carried out in this area, and shows its genesis, main issues, cultural context and modalities of its production. The French provision for the under threes' is characterized by its increasing diversification. French research shows a diversity…

This article summarises research carried out between 2006 and 2008 by IPTS (Institution for Prospective Technological Studies) in collaboration with a consortium of experts from 10 member states, led by ICEGEC. The project gathered information on eLearning developments to assess drivers and barriers and to suggest implications for policy and…

Distance education is among the significant fields for the application of educational technology. Distance education in China has gone through three phases, namely: correspondence-based education, radio and TV-based education and online education. This paper was based on educational technology application, and the historical, dialectic and…

Since 1995 I have been engaged in consultancies and since 2001 in research dealing with the language of instruction policies in Africa. To what extent are the policies being implemented? What is the role of research and consultancy when it comes to language policy? What happens when researchers or consultants come up with recommendations which do…

In this review, the authors trace the evolution of mentoring programs in the United States in business and academe, provide insight on the challenges associated with the study of mentoring, and identify the limited research-based studies of faculty mentoring programs that currently inform our understanding of this professional development practice…

Provides a brief account of educational programs recently completed or currently being undertaken by Lothian Region in southwest Scotland. (Author/RK)

This training program was designed to serve as the first part of a two-stage concentrated course leading to the doctorate in educational research, and to train personnel for intermediate responsibility in national, state, and local educational research. Twenty young teachers, selected for dynamic personality, high intellectual caliber, and…

This article describes the breadth of federal support for educational knowledge production and application. Support from the Education Division of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is discussed in detail. (Author/MC)

In this article, the author aims to develop a macro level understanding of home education and its research in China. The author analyzes the background, the reasons of revival, special features, and major contents of home education research in the late 70s and early 80s of the 20th century, and explores the development in the succeeding three…

Article investigated the questions of how aesthetic education can permeate the schools and how it can be financed. (Author/RK)

Given are the locations, addresses, objectives, tasks, and some projects of Centers for Tertiary Education in West Germany. The German term for a center of this kind is "Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum." In January 1975 there were 19 such centers in West Germany, mostly at newly-founded universities or at reform universities. (Author/KE)

Since graduate students in education are expected to direct educational inquiry at the termination of their doctorates, the program to prepare educational inquirers at Indiana University stresses critical understanding as well as mastery of techniques or methods. There are two essential aspects of the Indiana University Program in Educational…

This document presents proposals for future change at Wellesley. Two categories of change include the faculty and administration agencies and programs of instruction. Two agencies are proposed in the faculty and administration: the committee on educational research and development and the director of educational research. Changes in the program of…