The proceedings of a workshop on the growth of Southeast Asian universities emphasize the problems attendant to this growth; for example, expansion versus consolidation of higher education, and mass versus selective higher education. Papers concerned with university growth focus on various countries: Indonesia, Khmer Republic, Laos, Vietnam,…

This report discusses the impact of organizational context on the nature of instructional development programs and on the role of instructional developers. This paper describes the effort of a consortium of higher education institutions, the New Hampshire College and University Council (NHCUC) to establish an instructional development program.…

This training program was designed to serve as the first part of a two-stage concentrated course leading to the doctorate in educational research, and to train personnel for intermediate responsibility in national, state, and local educational research. Twenty young teachers, selected for dynamic personality, high intellectual caliber, and…

Of the three change strategies for educational improvement which are currently being supported with substantial sums of money, only the most recent, research-based development, can bring about real national improvement in educational practice. "Local innovation," although it will always be our best source of new ideas, fails as an effective…

This paper is a historical overview of the educational research and development setting that has been inherited by the National Institute of Education. The author identifies four major periods: a) the emergence of education as a field of study (1855-1895); b) the period of empiricism (1895-1938); c) the assumption of a pragmatic orientation; and…

Five areas of research into innovation adoption in educational institutions are described in this report. They are a) identification and description of phases involved in innovation adoption, b) development of assessment methods for predicting an institution's potential for successful adoption of change, c) development of measurement procedures…

In reaction to the Office of Education's plan for "educational renewal," in this document the National Advisory Council on Education Professions Development makes the following recommendations: (a) that a limited number of pilot efforts be undertaken to explore some of the ideas advanced under renewal, and that the concept of planned…

This document, fifth in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook prepared to provide training for educational research and development personnel in the development of instructional materials, deals with the task of planning simulation based on instructional and logistical needs. The document content is arranged according to the sequential order of…

This document, ninth in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook prepared to providing training for educational research and development personnel, deals with the task of developing instructional materials. The document is organized according to the sequential steps involved in performing the task. Step 1, planning the size and order of learning…

This document, last in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook providing training for educational research and development personnel in the development of instructional materials, provides a glossary of technical terms used in this program. Each entry includes: (a) a definition; (b) appropriate cross references; and (c) a reference to appropriate…

This article is based on two main theses: a) qualitative improvements in education will not come about as a result of rhetoric or superficial proposals for solutions made by the so-called new breed or educators, but rather as a result of a deeper understanding of the teaching-learning process and the development and use of new and better…

This document reports an attempt to examine the content and structure of the domain of research and development (R&D) training resources. The project began by locating instructional materials within a larger matrix that classified R&D resources by structure (primary/secondary, oral/written, documentary/non-document) and level of formalization…

The purpose of this program to train developers in public education systems was to construct and test a viable model that would fulfill its training goals in one year and which could also be replicated under similar conditions by comparable institutions. The model involved a part-time program which provided theoretical and experiential training…

This monograph provides a perspective to academic institutions, especially the developing institutions, to look at themselves in critical ways in order to: improve their capability in academic planning and development; develop useful techniques that will enable them to allocate limited institutional resources more efficiently into the academic…

This report describes the efforts being made through the Educational Research and Development Program to implement the new state strategy of reducing restrictions on local and institutional officials and at the same time holding them accountable for the effectiveness of their programs. Chapter II considers the development of techniques for…