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Seyfer, Charline; Russell, James D. – Performance and Instruction, 1986
Describes Mountain Bell's Computer Managed Instruction Development project; how the computer is being used to develop any type of instruction, to assist with management of course development projects, and to direct training of course developers; project field trial goals and results; project benefits; and future project orientation. (MBR)
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Costs, Decision Making, Efficiency
Download full textPenn, Patricia H.; Childers, Robert D. – 1994
Given the help they want and need, families do spend time with their young children in developmentally appropriate learning activities. Following a successful experience with Family Connections 1, the Rural Excel Program at the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) developed a second volume of 22 colorful, four-page guides to learning, designed…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Elementary School Students, Family School Relationship, Field Tests
DeVore, Paul W. – 1986
The background and objectives of the 1985-1986 Transportation Education Project of the Urban Mass Transportation Agency (UMTA) are discussed, along with project activities. The project was undertaken to transfer knowledge gained from federally-sponsored research and demonstrations to transit systems and to include the knowledge in college courses…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), College Faculty, Diffusion (Communication), Engineering Education
Scanlon, James A. – 1983
A project was conducted to develop a set of curriculum materials for use in implementing an instructional strategy to teach mechanical skills in secondary level exploratory vocational agricultural programs in Arkansas. The specifics of the project were to field test and refine an empirical method for developing and implementing an instructional…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Behavioral Objectives, Career Exploration
Boraks, Nancy; And Others – 1982
A project was undertaken to develop, field test, and revise strategies for adult beginning readers (ABRs). During the first phase of the study, the researchers identified roadblocks to use of word recognition clues by ABRs. Based on data and feedback from local and state piloting and general principles of learning, the project staff developed the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Stephens, Barbara; Jacobus, Jane – 1985
A four-phase project was undertaken to expand adult basic education (ABE) program outreach to meet the needs of the underserved, rurally isolated, older residents of south and southwest Iowa. The first phase of the project consisted of an advisory committee project review, a series of ABE staff interviews of senior citizens residing in the area,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Aging (Individuals), Consumer Education
