The real potential of ICT is the way it changes learners to become autonomous in their learning process. E-learning also plays a crucial role in today's life and in modern education. Its importance lies in the fact that people are finding that e-learning can make a remarkable change in teaching/ or learning: to how quickly they master a skill; how…

There are two types of teacher centres in Great Britain, multi-purpose centres designed for all subjects of the curriculum, and topical centres which deal specifically with one area of subject matter such as mathematics, English, etc. In this paper, the five mathematics centres in London are analyzed for purpose, materials available, and…

The article is designed to help educational agencies cope with the problems encountered in deciding on the structure and content of inservice programs on the topic of mainstreaming. The expressed concerns of over 300 regular and special educators are translated into several organized methods for presentation. (Author/PHR)

The document is the first of three volumes (Volume 3 is a film) dealing with the demonstration of dissemination practices on special class instruction for the mentally handicapped utilizing master teachers as inservice educators. Volume I is a report on functions and guidelines for replication. Inherent in the volume is a detailed discussion on…

The document presents an evaluation of a faculty inservice training project of the Maryland Community Services/Continuing Education (CS/CE) Project, which was designed with the purpose of acquainting adult teachers in community colleges with the principles of andragogy, by way of a series of workshops. Part 1, Background, discusses the formation…

Some procedures for an inservice education program on computers are proposed. The program goal is to bring teachers to understand the microcomputer as a tool-making technology that asks people to learn how to teach it to do something. An inservice syllabus is presented in the form of a program. (MP)

Experiences of the Instructional Services staff of the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) are detailed. To meet the massive demand for computer training, the staff has balanced the three approaches of offering regularly scheduled events, responding to individual requests, and urging institutions to set up their own follow-up…

This document discusses inservice education reform, begun in 1972 and continuing to the present, undertaken to reflect changes (both structural and content) in the elementary-secondary education program of Sri Lanka. Required was a coordinated country-wide program providing continuing education and geared to the social and economic needs of the…

The nature of schools and science education in Korea are summarized and the Ohio State program conducted for the Korean Ministry of Education is described. The program emphasized laboratory experiences and the development and evaluation of instructional activities. (KR)

The preservice-inservice, performance based teacher education (PBTE) program of the University of Toledo (Ohio) is described as an important example of the progress PBTE has made in the last decade and as an embodiment of changes the movement is undergoing as it assumes a permanent position in the process of educating American teachers. Presented…

The major features of the Florida plan for inservice teacher education are presented. Central to this plan is the organization of educational improvement centers not only for teachers but for all school personnel. The program was mandated by state legislation and receives state funding. This state-wide program is administered at the state level…

Moravian College developed a model training program for 246 educational mentors in the Lehigh Valley. The mentors were supervisors or counselors from business and industry, labor unions, churches, and support agencies. The mentors received training in psychology of the adult learner, the use of self-scoring inventories, and educational planning…

A conference/workshop held in late 1979 which was aimed at improving the teaching of mathematics is reviewed. The conference was a response to the PRIME-80 conference of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), which had produced recommendations that something should be done to reverse the decline of educational skills among entering college…

Describes two new approaches to supplement vocational agriculture teacher inservice education at Washington State University: 2-week summer school and 2-day mini-courses. (HD)