A national program is necessary to discover and implement the best ways to utilize educational technology. Several university centers for research and development on instructional technology could provide a basis for national initiative in this field. These centers should carry out basic research on systems theory, with emphasis on such fields as…

General systems theory is a set of related definitions, assumptions, and propositions which deal with reality as an integrated hierarchy of organizations of matter and energy. In this paper, the author defines the concepts of space, time, matter, energy, and information in terms of their meaning in general systems theory. He defines a system as a…

An annotated bibliography is the third concluding portion of this three-part progress report on IPI. Part I documents progress and findings up to September 1969 with the aid of a flow chart of the system, a table of behavioral objectives for the mathematics continuum 1969-70, a brief historical table (1954-66) of progress from research to IPI…

'Teaching in IPI' is an introductory program designed to equip the teacher with the basic skills required to plan and conduct IPI in the classroom. It comprises five volumes, of which this--divided into two sections: An Overview of Individualized Instruction and IPI, and Behavioral Objectives and the IPI Mathematics Continuum--is the first.…

This paper posits that it is necessary to evoke the development of an adequate federal KPU (Knowledge Production and Utilization) program in education which will command broad-based support within and outside the profession and that this demands a reformulation of the conceptual structure on which the program is built. Section 1 offers a…

This document provides an agenda for investment by the National Institute of Education and identifies the problem areas and functional activities that require a greater commitment of resources to provide an effective national program of research and development in higher education. Fifteen major problem areas have been identified, including:…

This study brings together a review of the attempts of many institutions to adjust to new demands and circumstances that have challenged them in recent years. (MJM)

The role of research and development in education is considered under nine main topics: 1) the need to reach agreement on a working definition and an acceptable classification of types of research; 2) the need for a balanced program requiring specific provisions for speculative and practical research, with school research units to ensure the…

This book includes a comprehensive directory of all community colleges and related institutions in Canada as well as a discussion of the history and development of th community college movement in Canada. Data are based on community college presidents' responses to mailed questionnaires, unstructured interviews, and press clippings pertaining to…

This is a report on the content, practices, and patterns of undergraduate education at New York University and elsewhere and includes proposals for reform that respond to the widely felt need for education more effectively related to the intellectual and social conditions of the 1970s. (HS)

In planning new directions for teacher education it is reasonable to assume that education will become more rather than less important in the next decade, that technology will drastically alter our way of life, that there will be a continued trend toward urbanization, that teaching will become more individualized, and that teaching talent will be…

This paper attempts to define the future role of research personnel in the public schools. It surveys the methods of applied and basic research and finds both inadequate for bringing about specific changes in the schools. Educational research and development is suggested as an alternative. This research and development cycle involves finding and…

This document reports the activities of the 1971 Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF) conference on teacher certification. The conference explored the bases for reciprocity and simplification of evaluation procedures. This report covers the conference proceeding including the opening remarks, recommendations of the 1970 CTF conference on teacher…

Computer programs prepared in connection with a project on Application of Communication Satellites to Educational Development (see EM 010 449) are described and listed in this memorandum. First, the data tape containing a digitized map of the world which was used for the programs is described. Then the first program, WORLDMAP, which plots the tape…

This report represents a regional approach to the immediate problems of higher education in New York City, and proposes a series of recommendations toward the cooperative resolutions of these problems. The Regents Advisory Council accepted as its charge a survey of the human, fiscal and physical resources of higher education institutions in New…