This document presents background, project activities, and results of a course initiated at the Claremont Colleges entitled "The Idea of Woman." The course was loosely constructed and was designed to be a learning experience for faculty as well as students. The class met in an informal seminar room for 2 hours once a week for a semester. During…

An experimental course in introductory organic chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin made use of the computer for drill and routine instruction. Lecturing time was reduced, and computer lessons were made part of the required coursework. This experimental situation was planned on the basis of results from previous experiments using…

This document presents an evaluation of the readings course program at New College at Hofstra University. Under this program, students divise an independent study project under the supervision of the faculty member. Readings courses may range from conventional readings and research to field work or the production of creative works. The student's…

Analytical view of a major interdisciplinary experimental program. (Editor)

Describes an innovative college geography course. The course increased student awareness of common landscape phenomena and stimulated recognition and comprehension of landscape components and their linkages in space and time. An outline shows lecture-discussion topics and reading assignments. (Author/AV)

Two courses were combined experimentally and succeeded in providing college students with in-depth learning about creativity: a psychology course explored psychologists' efforts to understand creativity and encouraged student self-exploration, and an art course focused on creativity as a way of living. Group projects and evaluation are discussed.…

A discussion of student learning and reactions to PSI, its effects on performance in higher level economics, its impact on student proctors in terms of their learning of economics, and costs of establishing and maintaining a PSI course. (AV)

Four articles report on the effectiveness of suggestive methods in foreign language instruction. Ray Benitez-Bordon reports on "Foreign Languaqe Learning via the Lozanov Method: Pilot Studies." Results of the two studies indicate great promise for the suggestive approach, and point to the needs for further research. In "The Sandy…

In an experiment in distance education conducted at the University of Lund, Sweden, students taking a course in educational technology studied at home with the aid of correspondence material. To help the students, telephone instruction with a tutor was provided. Each telephone conversation was recorded as part of the study. Students had positive…

This document examines the educational output of three alternative approaches to introductory macroeconomics at the University of Notre Dame. The framework for evaluation consists of the cognitive and affective tradeoffs entailed by using a new experimental course as opposed to two more traditional courses. The experimental course is a freshman…

"Making It Count," a multimedia computer course designed to be offered on public television for college credit at the sophomore level, was offered by the State University of Nebraska in 1975. The course was developed by the Boeing Computer Services. The course enrollment was 79, with 64 enrolled for credit. The mean student age was 36.5,…

Accounting I, a multimedia course, was the first course produced by the University of Mid-America, and was offered publicly for the first time by the State University of Nebraska in October 1974. A brief overview of this first offering includes: (1) a description of its development; (2) details of its initial offering, such as registration…

A brief overview is given of the State University of Nebraska's second offering of the multimedia course, Accounting I, in March 1975. Document HE 010 419 provides a description of the course and its components. The present report includes: (1) details relating to the second offering; (2) a profile of enrollees; (3) enrollee achievement; (4)…