Recounts the achievement of four Michigan community college teams of faculty who had integrated academic and occupational content--the goals and strategies for which were jointly developed by faculty from different disciplines in traditionally academic and career specialty areas. Describes the case of this integration and explores integration as…

This document presents four Innovator newsletters from the League for Innovation in the Community College (California). Number one contains the following articles: "Focus on Globalization, Learning, and the Human Touch for 1998 Conference on Information Technology,""Internet-in-Education Project Exceeds Goals,""First…

This document presents four Innovator newsletters from the League for Innovation in the Community College (California). Number one contains the following articles: "Conference on Information Technology Features Sophisticated Technology and Self-Directed Learning,""'League/PLATO on the Internet' Developmental Research Project…

School effectiveness is an issue that has preoccupied researchers and policymakers for 3 decades. To study how ineffective schools become effective and what constitutes an effective school, the Improving School Effectiveness Project was carried out in Scotland from 1995 to 1997. This project forms the basis of discussion in this book, which has 11…

This paper examines the historical development and current structure of transfer mechanisms within British Columbia (Canada), as reflected in a selection of reports, research studies, policy documents, and conversations with post-secondary education specialists in the province. It reviews the growth of the higher education system in British…

Article considered how New Jersey teachers are involved both as producers and consumers of successful educational programs. (Author/RK)

Balanced educational development, derived from planning, permits the attainment of educational growth with the minimum social and financial costs or attainment of the maximum rate of growth with fixed social and financial expenditures. (Author/WM)

Higher education development in the United States is briefly sketched to show how the past plus current demands have contributed to today's unique system of higher education. (Editor)

Article discussed the Faure Report and what it should mean to Canadian educators. (Editor/RK)

The purpose of this essay is not to answer why the educational upheaval of the late 1960's came and went so quickly, but to establish two opposite models of student attitudes and behavior in order to identify students within these two extremes. (Author/RK)

Article attempted to evaluate whether the Trusteeship Council missions, or the Trusteeship Council itself, have had any significant influence on educational planning and growth in Trust Territories. (Author/RK)

Five fundamental manifestations of technology for educational change are examined with particular reference to Canadian activities. These foci are: psychotechnology, information and communications technology, organizational technology, cybernetic systems technology and educational planning. Each is vitally concerned with the optimal organization…

A status report on the evolving conceptions of instructional technology and current applications in Brazil. A complementary purpose is to summarize those conditions which vitally influence the general characteristics of the Brazilian educational system and the nature of instructional technology in this major developing country of the world.…

Discusses the growing uneasiness among Africans about their educational systems in spite of the fact that virtually all African governments have committed large percentages of their national budgets to education. (GB)