Assesses the classroom environment to determine effectiveness of learning groups and offers suggestions for developing a "good" class, diagnosing peer interactions, and developing feedback between teachers and students. (Author/DB)

This report explores policies and practices governing online education with a particular focus on policies aiming to provide students with high-quality online learning experiences. The report looks specifically at two areas: state-level policies governing online education, and statewide online programs (i.e., programs created by legislation or by…

The 2005 National Online Learners Priorities Report presents the responses to the Noel-Levitz Priorities Survey for Online Learners (PSOL) of 16,551 students from 60 institutions. The results include online learner responses over a four-year time period, from 2001 through 2005. Highlights include: (1) Online students' priorities for their learning…

What do solitude experiences offer in this increasingly high-speed, technically dependent world? As this book inspiringly reveals, solo quests can provide powerful reconnection with the natural world, the true self, and the great mystery beyond. As Parker Palmer writes in "To Know as We Are Known," "Solitude calls us to confront…

The natural teaching method is active and student-centered, based on schema and constructivist theories, and informed by research in neuroplasticity. A schema is a mental picture or understanding of something we have learned. Humans can have knowledge only to the degree to which they have constructed schemas from learning experiences and practice.…

The Model of College Outcomes for Adults explains why adults might do as well as traditional students, despite limited participation and involvement in traditional residential learning experiences. The model's six components are prior experience and personal biographies; psychosocial and value orientation; adult cognition; life-world environment;…

African teachers, like their counterparts all over the world, have their problems. (Editor)

A teacher, who grew up in the fifties, relived his experiences as a student and a teacher while he reviewed the development of literature and its meaning for today's students. (RK)

Article presents an art program that helped students learn a technique and understand the patience and peace of another era. (Author/RK)

Program modifications guided by the emerging insights into developmental and experiential factors in children's lives seem even more urgent today, since political, economic and technical issues tend to be given major emphasis, with the needs of the children themselves all to frequently treated as an after-thought. (Author)

Author writes of young children in nursery school and the changes in their behavior during the school year. (Editor)

Authors summarize some simple, basic ways innovative teachers have sought to extend and unify learning environments for boys and girls in elementary schools. (Authors/CB)

Article suggests the development of learning experiences as a way to open levels of learning for all children. (Author/RK)

Describes an educational trip in a motor home in which study, educational tours, and living take place. Students are the main initiators of programs designed to stimulate the learning process and group living. (RK)

Presents techniques for evaluation of individual growth and development and a list of points for use as a check list to measure the extent to which evaluation is individualized in a given individualized curriculum. (Author/RK)