The use of advanced-level projects in distance teaching is examined, and projects done in an advanced course on research methodology in education and the social sciences are discussed. Three models suggesting different combinations of distance teaching and conventional institution-based teaching incorporating project work are proposed. (Author/MSE)

This document attempts to lay the groundwork for modeling and measuring the "wider benefits" of learning. The introduction distinguishes between two categories of "wider benefits" of learning. The first category is noneconomic benefits (benefits that are not measured directly in terms of additional income or increased…

The relationship between learning and family formation and dissolution was examined through a review of the literature that focused on education and family life in Great Britain and elsewhere. The following topics were examined: learning, marriage, and cohabitation; learning, dissolution, and divorce; changing patterns of childbearing in…