A regional workshop with participants from Norway, Finland, and Sweden held in June 1976 analyzed the concept of educational technology as it is reflected in a Nordic project on the use of educational technology in adult education--the "NOVU" project--with the help of a scheme suggested by the 1975 Strasbourg workshop on educational…

The system approach to planning and managing educational change features the use of an adaptive framework and a strategy for planned system change. The approach focuses management attention upon (1) relevant future states of expectations or goals, (2) present and future state variables and contexts, (3) human organization factors, and (4)…

A study was aimed at helping to define the information needs of persons who are directly involved in developing education policy at local and state levels. Five organizations interviewed for this project were: Education Commission of the States (Denver, Colorado); National Association of State Boards of Education (Washington, District of…