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Chuang, Ying C. – 1974
The methods of operations research (OR) can make many contributions to the solution of the complex problems which beset urban education. OR techniques such as PERT are useful aids to planning school construction, budgets, and research projects. System planning models can be used to represent urban educational systems and to predict the effects of…
Descriptors: Administration, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Critical Path Method
Burke, J. Bruce; And Others – 1973
A computer-assisted, competency-based instructional model has been developed for a teacher education program. It is based on the assumptions that individuals should control their own lives and that technology should be used to expand the range of human choice. The model uses a systems approach to organize the human, curricular and environmental…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Autoinstructional Aids, Competency Based Education, Competency Based Teacher Education
Ohlman, Herbert – 1971
In this survey and analysis of the present state and future trends of communication media and educational technology, particular emphasis is placed on the potential uses of communication satellites and the substitution of electronic transmission for physical distribution of educational materials. The author analyzes in detail the characteristics…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Output Microfilm, Dial Access Information Systems
Low, D. Stewart – 1973
The large-scale development of Time-Shared, Interactive, Computer-Controlled, Information Television (TICCIT) at Brigham Young University is described in this paper. The TICCIT project was designed to provide a market success example for computer-assisted instruction, particularly for junior or community colleges. The project incorporated a…
Descriptors: Closed Circuit Television, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science
Comings, John P.; Beder, Hal; Bingman, Beth; Reder, Stephen; Smith, Cristine – 2003
To benefit from the support of public and private sector leaders and to ensure that all students receive effective services, the adult education system must identify program models that have empirical evidence to support claims of effectiveness. The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences defines evidence-based education as…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Redding, Richard E.; And Others – 1992
A cognitive task analysis was performed to analyze the key cognitive components of the en route air traffic controllers' jobs. The goals were to ascertain expert mental models and decision-making strategies and to identify important differences in controller knowledge, skills, and mental models as a function of expertise. Four groups of…
Descriptors: Air Traffic Control, Air Transportation, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis
Hawkridge, David G. – 1970
The University of Great Britain will soon open, with an enrollment of 25,000 students. Within three years, 40,000 undergraduate students are expected. The instructional system of the Open University is unique: it employs a multimedia approach and stresses the interdisciplinary nature of the foundation courses. Weekly radio programs and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiovisual Centers, Broadcast Television, Correspondence Study
Ornstein, Jacob; And Others – 1971
Seeking to determine the extent to which educational technology is represented in the field of language instruction, this study presents a three-part survey of historical developments and current practices in this area. Part One examines the development of programed instruction in the language field, while focusing on research and development at…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Behavioral Science Research, Computer Assisted Instruction
Bhola, H. S. – 1979
To provide an introduction to processes, issues, and problems of curriculum development in functional literacy and nonformal education, a monograph provides 11 chapters, each followed by exercises. The first chapter discusses curriculum development in relation to national development. The second chapter covers concepts of functional literacy and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Community Development, Community Education
Campbell, Clifton P. – 1982
The Instructional Systems Development (ISD) approach for the accomplishment of vocational training programs provides a methodology for gathering and analyzing job information, for developing instructional materials and media, for conducting instruction, and for evaluating and improving the effectiveness of training programs. Included in the ISD…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Lamar, Carl S., Ed. – 1978
This book was designed to serve as a guide for vocational education administrators in implementing comprehensive program planning (the process of forecasting the future and then preparing for it) as called for in the Education Amendments of 1976. The content is presented in ten chapters. The first provides an overview of comprehensive planning in…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Advisory Committees, Community Planning, Comprehensive Programs
Miller, James G. – 1973
The purpose of this study of modern communications technology in education is to present a systematic conceptual approach for analyzing instructional technology, to identify research and development priorities in less developed countries, and to formulate 26 high priority projects to be undertaken in the coming years. Chapter I summarizes the…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Communications, Change Strategies, Communications, Communications Satellites
Monroe County Community Schools Corp., Bloomington, IN. – 1981
A project was conducted to develop and refine an adult basic education (ABE) teaching/learning management system called CUBE (Continuity and Unity in Basic Education). (The CUBE system--a diagnostic/prescriptive system for individualizing competency based learning for students in ABE--provides a flexible and complete system of instruction for ABE…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Competence
Bhola, H. S. – 1985
A group of instructional planners from the United States was invited to help establish a vocational skills development project to help meet the need for adequately trained workers in Ecuador's small- and medium-sized enterprises in the industrial, service, commercial and agricultural sectors of the economy. A logicodialetical model called the CLER…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Case Studies, Competency Based Education, Consultation Programs
Setzler, Hubert H., Jr.; And Others – 1979
The methodologies employed in the communication/language objectives-based system (C/LOBS), which supports the front-end analysis efforts of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, are examined. The C/LOBS project, which is described in 13 volumes and an executive summary, functions as a subsystem of the instructional systems…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Oriented Programs, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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