Considering the "tyranny of distance" in all Australian public service, campus-based educational systems have limited relevance outside the cities. The authors describe the existing tertiary educational system and its experimental alternative framework (the inversion of the original), the Open Learning Project. However, the future of…

Describes the "St. Louis Adventure" project developed by eighth grade social studies classes in a suburban St. Louis junior high school. Students carefully planned and carried out a one-day visit to one of four St. Louis neighborhoods selected for their cultural and historical interest by teachers. (JG)

Three articles compare the development and achievement of Russian elementary students in an experimental program with those in a conventional program. Results show an intensive inner motivation toward cognitive activity on the part of pupils in the experimental classes that was lacking in pupils in the conventional classes. (Author/RM)

The author describes the qualitative features of learning by school pupils in Russia who have completed education under an experimental system. This is done through analysis of certain aspects of their school work in the middle and upper grades. (Author/RM)

An Americanized version of Suggestopedia was used to teach eighth grade science in a public junior high school. The method used waking suggestions and unusual presentation styles to accelerate learning. Available from: Society for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 2740 Richmond Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50319. (Author/CFM)

An elementary school in Sofia, Bulgaria, was chosen for a long-term research study of the Lozanov Suggestopaedic System. This paper describes the results of math instruction in a third grade class. Available from: Society for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 2740 Richmond Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50319. (CFM)

Describes an effort to develop a cooperative network of university-based social scientists and representatives from various education-related organizations within a community for the purpose of exchanging their limited resources in effective and mutually productive ways. (JG)

Experience with an intensive effort to use interdisciplinary perspectives in a freshman legal contracts course to analyze door-to-door encyclopedia sales suggests that such programs are feasible. (Author/LBH)

A five-year experience of the Experimental Programs Division at Kent State University with the use of volunteers in college teaching suggests that there may be intrinsic advantages to volunteerism in higher education. (Author/LBH)

An 18-month quality-of-working-life experiment in an underground coal mine was conducted using autonomous work groups. Increased production, motivation, and safety resulted, but discontent was created among other workers at the mine. (TA)

A lunch-hour psychology course provides continuing education for the community in an informal atmosphere with lectures by university faculty members and other specialists on various social science issues, and has a nonthreatening grading system. (AV)

Two courses were combined experimentally and succeeded in providing college students with in-depth learning about creativity: a psychology course explored psychologists' efforts to understand creativity and encouraged student self-exploration, and an art course focused on creativity as a way of living. Group projects and evaluation are discussed.…

This study describes an experimental program that involves the participation of child care counselors and remedial educators in planning and implementing a remediation program based on a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of a child's cognitive assets and deficits. (SB)

Fifty teenagers in Tigard, Oregon, are engaged in an employer-based high school altnerative entitled Community Experiences for Career Education. The program staff believes that employers are best equipped to identify career education issues for students preparing to enter the work force. The program seeks to broaden career education. (KP)