This guidebook offers practical advice on planning, administering, and evaluating telecourses. An introductory section provides a definition and history of telecourses. The following section covers procedures such as planning for implementation of the telecourse, securing approval for the telecourse, deciding on the credit and grade options the…

This guide presents a model for planning technological education programs. It presents answers to questions involving: (1) the definition of the program discipline; (2) an assessment of the real need for the program, both generally and in the locale of the institution; (3) the availability of the physical and personnel resources to mount the…

This handbook is intended to guide educational administrators interested in adopting an Educational Resources Management System or Planning Programming Budgeting Evaluation System (ERMS/PPBES) by presenting detailed information on the experiences of various educational systems in implementing ERMS/PPBES programs. Data were gathered from a…

One of eight sections of a handbook for use by vocational teacher educators in improving vocational teacher education linkage with business, industry, and labor, this third section is designed to promote the use of the cooperative internship approach to utilizing resources of the private sector. (Cooperative internships, as defined here, encompass…

This program guide was written for the informed layman, educator, or educational administrator who may have some present or future responsibility for the administration of postsecondary and technical education programs. It is designed to provide some general suggested guidelines and administrative considerations for the development of new…

This plan states as a major purpose the gathering of feedback information and offers twenty-one questions probing the limits and possibilities of the Continuing Education Unit (CEU), a basic unit of measurement of organized continuing education experience. It includes the Georgia Plan, presenting possible methods of implementation, administration…

The manual, one of a series resulting from a project to design planning procedures for local and State vocational agencies, presents survey instruments which will help State, county, or local educational agencies gather information on the amount and kind of demand for adult or post-secondary vocational education programs. These instruments…

In 1968, a national planning conference, under the joint sponsorship of 34 organizations responsing to continuing education needs, created the National Task Force to determine the feasibility of a uniform unit of measurement and develop a proposal for field testing the concept. Stressing that continuing education units should supplement, not…

THIS PROGRAM GUIDE IS FOR ADMINISTRATOR USE IN PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE PROGRAMS OF RELATED INSTRUCTION FOR APPRENTICES IN THE NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM. IT WAS DEVELOPED BY THE LABOR DEPARTMENT APPRENTICE DIRECTOR AND STAFF, VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL INSTRUCTORS, AND PERSONNEL FROM INDUSTRY AND DESIGNED BY SUBJECT MATTER…

This handbook, directed to administrators and program planners, provides guidelines for implementing the Continuing Education Unit (CEU), the basic unit of measurement for organized continuing education activities. The Standard Nine Study, a survey of 415 of the 560 member institutions of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, revealed…

A Master Development Plan for Brevard Community College, projected up to 1983, emphasizes a multi-campus institution. The purpose and goals of the college are discussed as to long-range goals related to planning, instruction, student personnel services, employee relations, management, business services, staff development, institutional services,…

Geosystems are computerized techniques for matching information to places. They correlate demographic and socioeconomic information with locations on the surface of the earth. Using geosystems the college administrator can: (1) improve his overall planning, (2) define college service areas, (3) assist in site selection for new programs and…

United Vocational Preparation (UVP) is a scheme or strategy organized in England to assist young people to make successful progress during the transition from school to work. It consists of courses and assistance to young workers on an individualized basis. This guide is intended to help educators to construct and conduct schemes of UVP. The…

This handbook for the distributive education coordinator was designed to provide information on adult distributive education (D.E.) and to outline the necessary steps in establishing and conducting an adult program. It begins with an introduction which lists the intrinsic values of adult D.E. and the advantages that these programs offer to the…