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Kuwan, Helmut; Larsson, Ann-Charlotte – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
Policy interest in international surveys on Adult Learning (AL) has increased strongly. AL survey data are used as benchmarks for a country's educational system. However, results of key indicators like participation in learning activities often vary remarkably between different data sources. Stating that these differences are due to varying…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Learning Activities, Adult Learning, Learning Modules
Ertl, Hubert – 2000
This book examines modularization in the German system of initial vocational education and training. After examining the underlying concept of modularization (providing training through self-contained units that can be combined in different ways), the book presents an overview of modularization as it occurs in Spain, Scotland, France, and the…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Developed Nations, Educational Change
Gray, D. J. – 1989
This report outlines the range of existing problems in science education and proposes that a modular based physical science curriculum would contribute to solving some of the identified problems and produce numerous advantages. The physical science curriculum will be divided into a "core" of fundamental modules (the absolute minimum…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries

Locke, Joanne; And Others – Canadian Library Journal, 1988
The first of two articles describes a pilot project that offered library courses to penitentiary inmates, including the preparation of an education model for certification and the development of learning modules appropriate to distance education. The second describes the prison library and the reactions of inmates enrolled in the program. (CLB)
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Developed Nations, Distance Education

Brown, Colin – School Science Review, 1988
Describes a unique educational program at the Peers School (Oxford, England) involving integration of science and craft and design technology and how it is structured. Shares practical experiences and difficulties. Comments on questions that have been posed regarding this program. (CW)
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Foreign Countries, Instructional Innovation, Learning Modules
Allen, Robert; Layer, Geoff – 1995
This book discusses organizational, management and professional dimensions of change as credit-based systems are introduced in higher education institutions in the United Kingdom. Credit-based systems are taken to mean the flexible academic structures based around the parallel but interrelated concepts of credit and modularity. They are being…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Articulation (Education)
Population Education Newsletter and Forum, 1986
Describes population education efforts underway in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand. Discusses various approaches being implemented, involving workshops, conferences, teaching modules, and demonstrations in elementary and secondary school, higher education, and in nonformal education.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Demonstrations (Educational), Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education
Schuller, Tom, Ed. – 1995
This collection of papers investigates change and compares university education experiences worldwide, looking at it from the perspective of numbers of students, range of institutions, funding, institutional functions, boundaries, and directions, orientation of students and staff, and institutional change. After an introduction by Tom Schuler,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change, Change Agents, College Faculty
Lee, Young-Hyun; Cho, Jeong-Yoon; Tau, Alfred; Pereira, Clarence A. – 2002
A comparison of vocational training and technical qualification systems in Korea and South Africa shows both countries are responding to similar changes in economic and enterprise structures. South Africa's work experience learnership system is more desirable than Korea's more traditional separation between formal education and workplace training,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Comparative Education, Credits
Sanguinetti, Jill, Ed.; Hartley, Robyn, Ed. – 2000
The six state-based research centers of the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australian Research Consortium (ALNARC) investigated the effects of inclusion of literacy and numeracy standards in Australia's national training packages and the standards' impact on the quality of learning and work outcomes. The six ALNARC projects, which used a case study…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning