This phenomenological study explores the challenges 21 formerly incarcerated students identified as barriers to maintaining positive student experiences while enrolled in a college-in-prison program. Employing a thriving framework, the study identified several key challenges, including lack of study space, friction with prison staff, limited…

The experience of UWW at Morgan State College in Maryland with contracts, including costs of the program.

Because the assumption that formal education should be completed between the ages of 18 and 24 is no longer tenable, the author suggests that universities will increasingly become continuing education institutions. The prediction is made that the role of extension education in the new situation will be large. (LF)

The development of external studies programs in higher education, utilizing instructional design technology, is hypothesized to require the interaction of faculty content experts and curriculum specialists in a special type of development process. A model is proposed to include: (1) delineation of individual roles, (2) specification of the…

External degree programs are those educational programs that respond to acknowledged needs in higher education: greater access to post-secondary studies, more flexible curriculum offerings, and recognition of nontraditional forms of learning. This paper describes several external degree programs at various institutions across the U.S. Some of the…

Describes the practical problems encountered by one group of people, in one institution, when different disciplines were combined in the production of a course about the theory of curriculum design. (Author/RK)

Observing that distance teaching so far conducted at Britain's Open University is based on an authoritarian model with teacher-developed multimedia programed courses, the author proposes a new approach to such correspondence-type courses in which a framework is provided for students to organize their own learning using their own methods. (JT)

Describes the development of physics courses at the Open University, system of instruction, use of television, summer school, tutorials, and the costs involved. (GA)

Seminars on curriculum development transmitted by satellite are operated by the University of the South Pacific, Suva. The satellite was launched in 1966 by NASA, which has permitted educational broadcasting. Ground stations have been set up in eight countries that support the university. Practical aspects of transmission are outlined. (SW)

Discusses changes in the open university which involved a wider range of courses that had nothing to do with the degree program, including in-service courses for teachers, courses for people working in the caring professions, and short courses for the community as a whole. (JEG)

An overview of the ways nontraditional education uses alternative content, instructional procedures, locations, technical aids, and assessment to meet the needs of both old and new students. (Editor)

In 1972, the University of Pittsburgh initiated the University External Studies Program (UESP). The program emerged from a recognition of the university's responsibility to provide higher education to those previously unable to attend classes because of family or job responsibilities, geographic isolation, or limited mobility. This paper outlines…

This paper analyzes the new role that the University of Pittsburgh External Studies Program is creating for curriculum specialists. Different skills and competences are required for the curriculum coordinator who helps professors individualize their courses. interpersonal and communications skills and special techniques and procedures are needed…