The design of innovative learning spaces currently affects different educational sectors, including university teaching and learning. A parallel can be identified between the weakening of the specialisation of spaces for formal, informal, life-long learning, social interaction, and leisure and the blurring of the boundaries between work/learning…

This article describes the implementation and outcomes of incorporating creative digital assignments that utilize emergent social technologies in six college courses across the curriculum during the Spring 2015 term. These projects were supported by a digital learning center providing a website of short video and text tutorials, assignment…

The Learning Resource Center at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, provides tutoring laboratories that are required for developmental reading, writing, and math courses. This article reviews the processes used to plan and determine the effectiveness of the tutoring laboratories, including logic models, student learning outcomes, and the results of…

The Language Centre at the University of Padova provides language courses for students of all disciplines and with a wide range of needs. Over the years, the number of students having to deal with a language requirement has increased exponentially, while the teaching personnel and general resources have struggled to keep up. Catering to all of the…

The fifth annual report covers a variety of activities of the Indiana Career Resource Center, including goals of the center (related to inservice training), staff presentations, inservice and preservice training of teachers, and media editing and production. The center's involvement in career awareness for girls and women and staff support…

This document is the 1971-72 annual progress report of the Center to Improve Learning and Instruction, at the University of Utah. A comprehensive look at the major projects of the Center during the 1971-72 year, the principal Center publications, project writing activities, activities related to seeking sources of funding, individual…

The document presents the Southwest Regional Resource Center's (SRRC) final technical report on its major activities, products, and services for handicapped children from June 1, 1974, to September 30, 1977. The element summaries, which comprise the main text of the report, contain information on model development, regional task force work, direct…

Describes the ways in which the New York State Special Education Instructional Materials Center has become a major force in improving education for handicapped children in the state, with special reference to parent education and participation programs. (ED)

Questionnaires were sent to 307 persons, with 135 responses returned (40%), to determine who had used the Michigan Consumer Education Center services and to determine attitudes toward Center services. Five categories of persons were contacted: Those local representatives who had coordinated inservice training sessions provided by the Center; 1973…

Lists the foundational elements needed for an effective library media program and introduces the key components of effective collaboration with classroom teachers, providing proven strategies for its implementation. Suggests teacher-librarians need to take the initiative in collaboration and discusses collaboration as a predictor of student…

This paper describes the Educational Media Center (EMC) at the University of Michigan School of Education and its attempts to become technologically ready for competency-based teacher education. The EMC, a facility for storing, producing, promoting, and disseminating learning resources, comprises seven components. A media library serves as a model…

School librarians have a vital role in improving the curriculum and assisting students to be happy, contented, and achieving individuals. Continuous progress of each librarian is a must through inservice education. Means of assisting librarians to attain well include: (1) a professional library with time set aside for reading and discussing ideas…

The third of three volumes of appendixes to the final technical report of the Great Lakes Region Special Education Instructional Materials Center contains materials related to the final report's chapter on media, materials development, and workshops. Included are the following materials: "Yours for a Better Workshop"--a booklet and…

The topics selected for the workshop were priority areas reflected by State Board of Education resolutions and mandates. The first priority was selection and use of instructional materials. Presentations by five speakers were entitled: "Are We Selecting for a Generation of Skeptics?""Censorship Versus Selection of Materials: A Matter of…

Summarizing the results of a conference of 30 Maryland media specialists, this report provides illustrations of a variety of media services to augment instruction in the skills of reading, listening, and viewing. Part I consists of background essays, and Part II details a program of media services for elementary, intermediate, and senior high…