Describes the Centre at Loughborough University whose purpose is to provide a range of resources and services for students over and above those normally available. Discusses the philosophy behind its development and details a wide range of practical issues. (Author/ASK)

The first of a series on Holocaust literature for young people, discusses reviewing, selecting, teaching, and promoting books about the Holocaust and suggests ways to connect these stories to accounts about racism. Highlights individual books, identifies print and nonprint teaching resources, and provides a bibliography of books for middle school…

Documents the process of building an area at a school that allows students to gain an appreciation of biology outside the classroom. Discusses several issues that should be considered before undertaking such a project. (DDR)

Hospital nurses (n=37) described their continuing education activities, identifying the use of a variety of learning resources, but overall little participation in formal continuing education on their own time and at their own expense. Many deterrents and low supervisor expectations limited the use of paid educational days. (SK)

Introduces NASA Quest as part of NASA's Learning Technologies Project, which connects students to the people of NASA through the various pages at the website where students can glimpse the various types of work performed at different NASA facilities and talk to NASA workers about the type of work they do. (ASK)

Examine resources and their use in school mathematics from the perspective of mathematics teacher education with a view to the practice of school mathematics. Provides examples of resource use within an in-service teacher education research project in South Africa. Concludes that mathematics teacher education needs to focus more attention on…

Examines the potential of the "Australian Education Index" (AEI) as a tool to map and monitor educational research. Presents analyses that identify the thrust of research publications in Australia between 1984 and 1997. Key findings pertain to differences in the thrust of theses compared to other publications and to overall stability in…

Examines the conceptual frameworks and substantive ideas of three authors--Lawrence Cremin, Neil Postman, and Christopher Lasch--all of whom view technologies as educators. Focuses on television as an educator and the relations between television's education and the education of schools, families, and communities. Contains 19 references. (DDR)

Explores how, tempered by the collapse of the dot-com boom, education institutions are taking a more guarded approach to moving their purchasing operations online; however, those who have moved to such systems have found less bureaucracy, more efficiency, and better prices. (EV)

Outlines efforts to create mathematics-related activities for freshman/sophomore level college algebra and statistics classes at Shippensburg (Pennsylvania) University. Shares some of the ways in which these activities were created and adapted. (ASK)

Discusses ways to enhance children's learning opportunities through technologically based approaches. Recounts an interview with a 13-year-old girl about her use of computers for and in school and considers implications of the interview for teachers seeking to improve technology training. Lists Internet, paper, and software resources for teaching…

Describes the "Flower of Peace" model for peace education as embedded in the Montessori educational approach, focusing on self-awareness, community awareness, cultural awareness, and environmental awareness. Maintains that the adult is the single most important factor in educating children for peace. Includes resources for peace…

Investigates the production-function relationship between educational resources and labor-market outcomes for higher education in the United Kingdom. Using ordinary least squares and hierarchical linear models, finds that graduate earnings are positively correlated to the level of resources per student and negatively correlated to the…

Tailored descriptions of online educational resources can support users searching for educational resources on the World Wide Web (WWW) by helping them to assess for themselves the relevance and suitability of each resource. Suitable descriptions can be derived from the online metadata stored with each resource. The descriptions take into account…

E-books promise to become a widespread delivery mechanism for educational resources. However, current e-books do not take full advantage of the power of computing tools. In particular, interaction with the content is often reduced to navigation through the information. This article investigates how adding interactive visuals to an e-book…