This excerpt from the book, "Personalized Learning in Physical Education," discusses the meanings of cohort, individualized, personalized, and humanistic education, and stresses that the individual instructor must choose for himself among the varieties of individualized instruction or decide whether to use any at all. (MB)

Explores the process recently employed in China (post-1966) to transfer skills and information related to family planning via a network of alternative educational institutions lodged in the health care delivery system. (Author/RK)

States that alternative public schools are a viable option, and provides an overview of the range of opportunities provided by such schools. (Editor)

Four major trends will be evident in the future of undergraduate education: (1) an increase in the enrollment of nontraditional students, (2) an increase in the number of alternative educational institutions, (3) a decrease in the emphasis on vocational preparation, and (4) a major reconsideration of compulsory education. (DC)

Schools do not exist in a vacuum and neither do people. That fact is propelling the U.S. toward a national policy on lifelong learning. Provisions of the Senate Lifelong Learning Bill are included. (LBH)

Describes an alternative approach to teaching communication arts that focuses on the student's communicative experiences as the center of concern. (MH)

Presents a model designed to individualize instruction in the basic speech communication course and notes both learner related and system related advantages of using such a model. (MH)

Proponents of school reform have argued that charter schools can provide adequate market pressure to improve the performance of traditional public schools. While the number of charter schools and their student enrollment have burgeoned, relatively little attention has been paid to their effects on student achievement. This paper focuses on student…

This paper examines school choice reforms in one key state, within the broader context of public education and privatization. Choice advocates describe the public nature of charter schools in terms of access, funding, choice, and effects. Critics see charter schools as precursors to more market-based reforms such as vouchers. In reviewing the…

This study was based on the premise that college students who perceive themselves to matter to their institutions will be more involved and inclined to persist in their educational experiences than those who perceive themselves to be marginalized. The study pursued the question of possible relationships among student perceptions of mattering,…

This study investigated the oral and written expression of 16 learning disabled students in a special education alternative high school. Students were offered two prompts: one written, one verbal. Written and oral responses were scored according to a rubric similar to that used for the New York State High School English Regents Examination.…

Online teaching in higher education has become increasingly common, particularly as colleges and universities attempt to serve surging enrollments in some areas and as they look to expand their offerings in other markets. A primary consumer of these courses is the nontraditional student. Because these nontraditional students have unique learning…

Currently every Area Education Agency, community college, and Regent University in Iowa is connected by a fiber optic system known as the Iowa Communications Network (ICN). Every semester, 7 to 13 college credit classes have been offered at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) via the ICN since 1993. In the Spring of 1995 seven classes (six…

This document reports that Campus Alberta is emerging as a key framework under which Albertans will be able to pursue and achieve their lifelong learning goals. Campus Alberta is neither a program nor an institution, but rather a concept, a set of principles and a way in which the learning system works to deliver seamless learning opportunities…