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Collins, John – ASPBAE Journal, 1974
The Teletutorial Project developed by the Council of Adult Education Victoria, Australia, provides educational opportunities for isolated groups through a telephone linkup system, with tutors and their groups communicating over large distances. The program and teaching methods are described, with personalization and mutual exchange emphasized. (LH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audio Equipment, Community Programs, Foreign Countries
Albrecht, A.; Spencer, D. C. – 1979
An outline is presented of Barnet College's flexistudy program, a system for providing a wider range of learning opportunities through a more flexible arrangement of course times and content to students who are unable to attend college regularly, who are too few in number to form a specialist class, or who wish to start school at some time other…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correspondence Study, Extension Education, Foreign Countries
And Others; Buckey, Amy – Adult Leadership, 1976
Describes a program at Duke University on continuing education for women students returning to the university classroom. (ABM)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Peer reviewedPaul, Ross – Community Services Catalyst, 1986
Reviews the major successes and failures of Athabasca University's efforts to extend access to a credible and academically sound university education to adult Canadians, largely through home-study packages. Discusses issues including rural/urban student differences, the role of tutors, adult student needs, student preparedness, and organizational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Delivery Systems
Download full textFrazier, Connie; Freer, Carol – 1989
From August 1988 to June 1989, Rock Valley college, in cooperation with a local literacy council and the English Language Study Center, administered a project whose goal was to recruit, provide tutoring to, and provide English-as-a-Second-Language classes to employees at their place of employment. The project functioned well, with each partner…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Grants, Higher Education
French, Laurence – 1977
"No part of Cherokee life has been more important to the Tribe, past or present, than that of a good education." Despite this attitude, it has not been easy for the Cherokee to bridge the gap between their subculture and that of the larger dominant U.S. society. Discipline and white enculturation were zealously pursued in early boarding…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, American Indian Education, American Indians
Morgan, Ronald R.; And Others – 1990
Two pilot studies, which were conducted to determine the effectiveness of a home-based tutoring program operated within an accredited special function school, and to guide the development of an on-going tutoring research project are presented. The population served, from which study populations are drawn, has included, in over 20 years, 5,000…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
