A survey of associate- and bachelor-level graduates from a selected group of external degree programs (EDP) is described with emphasis on survey methodology. Likely employers of EDP graduates were also surveyed regarding their hiring and promotion policies in this study aimed at developing appropriate methods of assessing the acceptability and…

One of the products developed by the Home and Community-Based Career Education Project, the booklet on external degree study is intended for those persons who want to pursue postsecondary education but because of home, job, or other responsibilities are unable to do so in the traditional manner. It discusses alternative forms of postsecondary…

A course in instrumentation offered through the British Open University included a television program which introduced and illustrated Fourier analysis and transducer response. The television component was evaluated using questionnaires, telephone interviews, and group discussions. The program was successful in that it demonstrated complicated…

The use of Videotape-Electrowriter Remote Mode (VERM) to deliver advanced level engineering graduate courses to student not on the University of Tennessee campus is described. Begun initially as an experimental project in 1969 using videotape equipment to record blackboard presentations, classes are now sent to other campuses and to industries…

Florida International University (FIU), The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and Eagle University (Kentucky) have designed programs to meet the needs of nontraditional students. Eagle University, composed of nine universities from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Florida, extends educational opportunities to servicemen and community members of Fort…

This report concerns the extablishment and development of the British Open University. Contents include the descriptions of: the development of the institution; staffing the open university; development of the Milton Keynes Campus; undergraduate course development; regional organization; demand for open university courses; development, production,…

This speech, presented before the Board of Trustees of Cornell University on January 22, 1971 concerns the future of private higher education. The author is pessimistic about the future of private higher education in New York as it now stands. First, colleges under religious auspices, particularly those under Catholic sponsorship, are moving…

A study was conducted to determine if a market of potential students for an external Associate of Arts degree in general education existed and to develop a model for such a degree program. The extent to which a potential market existed was ascertained by surveying a sample (n=255) of adult students enrolled in non-credit programs offered by…

Existing data indicate that there is a serious gap between the statewide needs and demands of Michigan citizens for off-campus instructional services and the present pattern of services being provided by Michigan colleges and universities. It is also apparent that there is a need for more complete information on existing programs and about the…

The article explains the importance of seeing education as a process of continuous learning, both for the benefit of the older adult and for the benefit of society, which needs people capable of learning new information throughout their lives. (CD)

The authors apply a model of tribal behavior ("Cargo Cultism") to explain practices of modern college faculties regarding the rejection of collective bargaining as a means to attainment of personal "goods" and the disdaining and destruction of alternative types of residency requirements for degrees that might produce greater institutional "goods."…

The author, a correspondence tutor for Britain's Open University, argues that the correspondence tutor's primary function is to facilitate learning, which requires comments that establish an interchange of ideas between student and tutor. (JMD)

At a conference for part-time staff of the East Anglian Region of Britain's Open University, role-playing was used to improve counseling skills. Two role-plays of counseling situations are summarized and discussed and the Role-Playing--Observer's Check List, used in the session, is appended. (JMD)

A study was conducted to determine what library and information sources were utilized or needed by students taking higher-level Open University courses. Information requirements of advanced students indicated that information is needed about area facilities and that students need help to acquire skills in locating and using special resources. (SW)