Research and writing are critical components of an undergraduate education. Partnerships between economics faculty and campus resources can improve student research and writing skills. Here, the authors describe programs at three different campuses that bridge department and campus resources: the Empirical Reasoning Lab at Barnard College, the…

Providing training for pre-service teachers at historic sites necessitates a reorientation for historic site-based teacher education programs away from strict content learning towards programs that emphasize the modeling of disciplinary problem solving and transfer learning. Outlined here is a History Lab model for teacher education that uses the…

This report presents findings from RAND's evaluation of the Appalachian Renaissance Initiative (ARI) in 17 districts totaling 99 kindergarten-12th grade schools within the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC). The initiative took place from the 2014-2015 through 2017-2018 academic years. The evaluation examined various aspects of ARI…

Described is a 15-minute audio-tour that orients first-time visitors to the center by providing them with an organized walk through the facility and describing special features. (MP)

There's a lot more to it than taking your students on a field trip or bringing guest speakers into the classroom. Don't leave out the learning objective, say the authors, in offering other sound advice. (Editor)

Western Piedmont Community College adopted the concept of a people-oriented Learning Resources Center with services offered to the entire college community through a learning laboratory, audiovisual center and library. (JG)

On March 3, 1971, a symposium was held at Oklahoma Christian College in order to discuss learning centers at the higher education level. For the purposes of the symposium, a learning center was defined as: (1) having a variety of audio and visual learning paths; (2) containing both print and nonprint resources; (3) affording opportunity for…

The construction of 55 new learning resource centers is briefly analyzed. (SM)

In your expanding program of agribusiness and natural resource occupations, can you afford to ignore this wealth of teaching tools that will make learning more realistic to your students? (Editor)

The Learning Booth, an educational product developed and tested by the Far West Laboratory, was designed to offer a young child (at kindergarten or first-grade level) an experience which enables the child to learn to solve problems and find answers independently. Other training materials enable users to set up and operate a learning booth for…

This inventory of programed instructional materials useful in business education setting was developed specifically for the Business Education Learning System (BELS), and is divided into sections on: (1) Software, (2) Software With Accompanying Hardware, and (3) Hardware. Items in the software inventory are arranged by business subject areas and…

In order to realize their academic missions and respond to state demands for access, assessment, and accountability, the nation's community colleges, along with all other institutions of higher education, are focusing increasingly on the enhancement of academic support services. Learning centers represent an important means of providing learning…

The language media laboratory described in this proposal is intended to provide for the implementation of broader instructional objectives than language laboratories of previous years, including the dial access type. The proposal is divided into three main sections: (1) program rationale; (2) programs and services; and (3) design of the language…

A survey of 28 military industrial, government, and academic learning centers was conducted. The purposes were to document the state of the art in the establishment and operation of these centers and to determine their potential usefulness in terms of being able to provide individualized, cost-effective instruction in Air Force training programs.…

Some 50 titles have been selected, abstracted, and categorized for this bibliography. They have also been divided into five educational subject areas: general topics; public school/early childhood; community/junior college; college/university; and adult education. The bibliography was designed specifically for learning lab coordinators,…