"Growing by Degrees: Online Education in the United States, 2005--Southern Edition" is based on data collected for the third annual national report on the state of online education in U.S. higher education. Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and based on responses from over 400 southern colleges and universities, this special…

Most campuses, recognizing the important role that student services play in learner success and retention, have a full range of student services in place to support their on-campus learners. Yet, many have failed to provide the same level of service to their off-campus learners who cannot come to campus. All students deserve access to a full array…

This directory is an encyclopedic compilation and includes all companies, institutions, and organizations which lend or rent 16mm films within the United States--including the 48 States, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico--and assented to their being listed in the directory. It includes libraries which handle entertainment…

The education system is a failure and must be reexamined. Student teacher relationships and teaching methods must change. In the future, instead of learning by rote, students will have recourse to data banks to obtain the materials to be used as content for the exercise of what Piaget calls operativity. (RM)

Describes how a school district in the mostly poor or working class Union City, New Jersey "remade" its schools before integrating technology. They adopted a whole-language approach, which facilitated other changes: replacement of old texts with classroom libraries of authentic literature; interdisciplinary scheduling; removal of pullout…

Outlines criteria of distance education success established by both the state of Iowa and the Federal Star School program. Discusses progress made by Iowa toward federal goals, including infrastructure development, service to underserved learners, improved instruction, increased professional development, greater access to electronic technologies,…

Describes the necessity in college developmental algebra classes for an individualized learning approach that caters to remedial students' different needs. The Mediated Learning Model, used at Brevard Community College, integrates the core elements of traditional instruction with interactive multimedia. (VWC)

Issues identified as important to the future of information resources management and use in higher education include information policy in a networked environment, distributed computing, integrating information resources and college planning, benchmarking information technology, integrated digital libraries, technology integration in teaching,…

Explores the changes wrought in subject discipline classroom cultures by the introduction of computers. Discovered different adaptations and approaches among the subject discipline cultures. Art, technology, and family studies adjusted easier than social studies. Social studies teachers often felt computer instruction stole time away from content…

Drawing on the experience of two first-year classrooms in Melbourne, Australia, this article explores numeracy learning within an information and communication technology (ICT) environment. Included are examples of how mathematical skills can be promoted and learned in such a way that children can extend their use to practical, problem-solving…

This article discusses telecommunications infrastructure and instructional innovation at Townview, a college preparatory school in Dallas, Texas. Topics include connectivity, Internet access, the multimedia center, videoconferencing and student-directed curricula, resource sharing, cooperative learning activities, advanced science learning and…

Discusses three programs where mirocomputers were added to the classroom to introduce technology and aid in instruction. Presents a high school chemistry class with a modem hookup to Purdue University, an elementary facility to track students by mastery, and a project where fourth graders each received a computer for home. (MVL)

Investigates the validity and reliability of performance assessments using data from over 300 fifth and sixth graders. Results demonstrate the gap between the reality of measurement through performance assessments and the political rhetoric that would institute these assessments in a national examination system in the immediate future. (SLD)

Computer conferencing offers many opportunities for linking college students and faculty at a distance. From the Binational English and Spanish Telecommunications Network (BESTNET) has evolved a variety of bilingual video/computer/face-to-face instructional packages to serve institutions and nontraditional students on several continents. (MSE)

Describes a cooperative-learning technique that uses a computer network and involves cooperation among teams separated by physical and social distances. Teachers' messages and students' work illustrate positive features of network connections for inner-city classrooms that are at-risk because of academic, physical, or economic conditions. (RLC)