The Open University of Catalonia (UOC) was established as public, online university and thus has grown quickly with the global interest in online courses. However, like other dedicated distance-education institutions, UOC has had challenges adapting to MOOCs, and the emergent world of Web 2.0 learning technologies. To meet these challenges, UOC…

Discussion of the integration of information skills from a junior high school library media program into the curriculum focuses on the use of the Big Six Skills, a model that incorporates six steps for solving information problems. Its suitability for organizing information skills and curricular areas is explained. (four references) (LRW)

A questionnaire was administered to eight universities in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to determine how their curriculum materials centers were organized and what services they offered. Data were collected for the following: titles of centers, purpose, resources, activities and services, location, administrative organization, organization of…

Some school systems are expanding the function of their administrative offices so that they serve as educational service centers -- easily accessible and available to teachers whom they are designed to serve. (Author)

The author entails a plan for bringing a learning resources center to the school media center, and bringing instructional development to the learning resources center. (Author)

Describes the function and activities of the center and outlines the curriculum methodology advocated by the center. (GS)

Paper presented at Symposium on Research and Utilization of Educational Media for Teaching the Deaf (Lincoln, Nebraska, March, 1971m. (CB)

Discussion of the use of poetry in the classroom highlights 15 poetry books and suggests numerous activities appropriate for grades 2 through 5 in the subject areas of African Americans, birds, color, discoveries, families, food/eating, haiku, multiculturalism, Native Americans, nature, New England, Paul Revere/biographies, seasons, trains, and…

This report defines a curriculum laboratory to be a center where educational materials are developed, modified, and stored. Included in the document are a history of the curriculum laboratory, a study of its characteristics, and a survey of the curriculum laboratories in the colleges and universities of Pennsylvania. The Wilkes College curriculum…

The major purpose of the center has been to improve the quality of instruction in the participating schools by providing in-service training to teachers in the use of instructional materials and equipment. At the onset, four global objectives were established to a) integrate more media (i.e., filmstrips, books, slides) into the teaching…

Arguments are presented for curriculum materials development to be treated as a separate entity from departments of agricultural teacher education. Reasons given for a separate curriculum laboratory include priority given to materials development, economy and efficiency of production, and improved cooperation between teacher educators, state…

Here are some tips on how to make your school's media center an integral part of the school program. (Editor)