Thirty learning styles preferences are profiled for a group of adult male students enrolled in an external degree program. The Canfield Learning Style Inventory was used to assess the adult students' learning styles. Correlations between learning styles and traditional learning environments were examined. (Author/MLW)

Assesses the possible effects of lossening up fixed time requirements and rigid patterns of instruction on the economic efficiency and instructional quality of higher education. (Editor/PG)

The author, a correspondence tutor for Britain's Open University, argues that the correspondence tutor's primary function is to facilitate learning, which requires comments that establish an interchange of ideas between student and tutor. (JMD)

A study was conducted to examine the relationships of four areas of textual design factors that are relevant to external students' learning as they use their course study guides: the micro and macro textual features, the linguistics, and the instructional design elements. Twelve external students from two units at the Gippsland Institute were…