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Devkota, Kamal Raj – International Review of Education, 2021
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has triggered serious disruption in economic, social and cultural dynamics around the globe. Higher education has also suffered undeniable challenges as a result of the pandemic, with thousands of university students all over the world experiencing displacement, disconnect and disengagement from formal learning. In…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education, Online Courses
Hains-Wesson, Rachael; Wakeling, Lara; Aldred, Peter – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2014
This paper describes an ePortfolio implementation strategy at Federation University Australia, Victoria (formerly the University of Ballarat). The authors combined a personal and practical viewpoint to elicit pitfalls, challenges, and recommendations for improvement. The paper is divided into three main areas in order to outline the experiments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Electronic Publishing
Sampong, Kwasi Addo – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The study used an adaptation of Provus' discrepancy evaluation model to evaluate a distance teacher education program in the University of Cape Coast, the premier teacher education institution in Ghana. The study involved comparing performance data of the program as perceived by students and faculty/administrators to standards prepared from the…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Distance Education, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Fresen, Jill W.; Hendrikz, Johan – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
This paper reports on the re-design of the Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) programme, which is offered by the University of Pretoria through distance education (DE) to teachers in rural South Africa. In 2007, a team re-designed the programme with the goal of promoting access, quality, and student support. The team included an independent…
Descriptors: Workshops, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Rural Schools
Duncan, Dvenna A.; And Others – 1987
The University of Portland (Oregon) School of Education has proposed a "Field Based Model for Delivery of Preservice and Inservice Training for International School District Personnel in Remote Areas." This model provides competency based, on-site preservice and inservice training designed to meet the unique training needs of…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Kirk, James J. – 1991
This paper describes residential week-long seminars offered at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) in Cullowhee, North Carolina, Western Carolina University. The center was established in 1985 to reward and support outstanding full-time teachers in North Carolina and to enhance teaching as an art and as a profession.…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Faculty Mobility, Higher Education, Problem Solving
Alberta Univ., Edmonton. The Senate. – 1993
This publication reports on the progress that the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada has made to respond to the higher education needs of the northern region of Canada. In particular this report evaluates the progress made after 3 years on a series of formal recommendations proposed in 1988. The paper lists each of the recommendations and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Role, Distance Education, Educational Needs
Hart, Russ A.; And Others – 1992
The planning and implementing of a rural instructional television fixed service (ITFS) distance education program at California State University-Fresno (CSUF) is described. The three important functions of establishing a distance education program within a learning institution are addressed: telecommunications networking, management…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Distance Education, Educational Planning, Educational Television
Ahlborn, Ernest S. – 1995
A marketing program implemented in 18 small, rural agricultural communities aimed at increasing enrollment in the daily religious classes held by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Approximately 23 percent of the population in the 18 communities belong to this Church. Daily religious instruction is provided in released-time…
Descriptors: Enrollment Influences, High School Students, Higher Education, Marketing
Gershner, Vera T.; Snider, Sharla L. – 1998
The Community Collaborative Professional Development Center (CCPDC) coordinates the preservice teacher-training efforts of Texas Woman's University (TWU) by linking teacher educators with school districts which provide field placements for students and community business partners. The CCPDC includes 11 school districts that provide field training…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Reid, Barbara J.; Bross, Mary – 1991
This paper describes Project TRAIN (Training Rural Area Interventionists to meet Needs), a federally-funded competency-based program that provides graduate-level preservice training for early intervention professionals interested in working with special-need infants, toddlers, and their families. In the third year of the program 19 trainees have…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Early Intervention, Evaluation Criteria, Graduate Study

Hulen, Lynn R., Comp. – 1978
Because of a mounting awareness that those most at risk in America today are the rural poor, educating for social work practice in rural areas has become an important and growing concern to many in the field of social work education. This report incorporates the findings and materials germane to developing a specific rural child welfare and family…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, College Curriculum, Conference Proceedings, Curriculum Design
Thakrar, Jayshree; Zinn, Denise; Wolfenden, Freda – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The challenges to teacher educators in sub-Saharan Africa are acute. This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to support school-based teacher professional development. The TESSA consortium (13 African institutions and 5 international…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Consortia, Educational Resources
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Santiago (Chile). Regional Office for Education in Latin America and Caribbean. – 1983
The initiative and activities carried out by 29 countries in Latin and South America and the Caribbean in the UNESCO Major Project in the Field of Education to correct deficiencies and meet unsatisfied basic educational needs are summarized. Many summaries reflect revisions made during 1983 in National Plans of Action with respect to enhancing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperation, Developing Nations, Educational Planning
Jensen, Mary Cihak; Bernhardt, Victoria L. – 1991
To address the shortage of special education teachers, California State University (CSU), Chico in collaboration with rural, isolated school districts in CSU's service area, designed a two-year, on-the-job training program that recruited, prepared, and supported new special education teachers. Candidates, selected collaboratively by the University…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Students
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