This article introduces a set of distance education astronomy laboratory exercises for use by college students and instructors and discusses first usage results. This General Astronomy Education Source exercise set contains eight two-week projects designed to guide students through both core content and mathematical applications of general…

Academic librarians at a mid-size university library developed an online information literacy tutorial that is easy to create, access, edit, and organize even for those with limited time and technological skills. Modular in structure, Project Information Literacy Online Tutorial (PILOT) includes interactive exercises, media, and self-testing as…

At Wagner College, students are required to participate in a series of three curriculum-based learning communities (C-BLCs) as the core of the undergraduate curriculum known as the Wagner Plan for the Practical Liberal Arts. This article describes the senior learning community (LC) in psychology at Wagner College, which is an example of a…

Discusses instructing writing tutors, and tutorial classroom technqiues. Contains a list of different kinds of tutorial sessions to serve as a model for tutors. (HTH)

As a direct result of the passage of the America Reads Challenge Act in 1997, Mt. Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has developed a reading tutor program. The program includes a college credit course and on-site visits by college faculty supervising student tutors. This article includes the rationale for development of a credit course for reading…

A partial solution to the problem of choosing what to teach from the vast amount of subject matter was achieved by combining the philosophies of the audio-tutorial approach and the concept-pak approach. (DF)

Describes the development of a writing program that offers diverse sources of instruction beyond the English department. (AEA)

Describes a team teaching effort in advanced level physics for a secondary school in England. Lectures in various listed topics are assigned to, and tutorials are distributed among, different team members. Lecture notes, several of which are given, are distributed to decrease student reliance on note taking. (TS)

In this program, engineering students who have proven to be excellent writers are trained to give individual help to other students. (BB)

A report on the impact of using student-to-student tutoring in freshman economics at Duke University. Positive impacts were seen to be twice as great as having had high school economics or having had high school differential calculus. (Author/AV)

Describes a non-credit tutorial course held for engineering students to improve their skill in problem solving. In the group sessions, each student writes his approach to a given problem on a transparency; the class then analyzes the various approaches while viewing them on overhead projectors. (MLH)

Describes and illustrates the tutorial and homework exercise lessons, student routing, course organization, administration, and evaluation of a PLATO computer-based course in classical mechanics. An appendix lists 41 lessons developed for the course. (CMV)

A study investigated a communication skills tutoring program to determine if peer tutoring proved an appropriate pedagogy for communication skills training. A survey, in which questions were grouped into categories of instructional, ethical, and training issues, was distributed to 8 instructors and to 12 tutors who were enrolled in a course…

A course is described in which the traditional grading system, lecturing, laboratory work, and major tests are deleted. (DF)