This report presents ideas on the campus to workplace transition gathered from five regional workshops conducted in 1998-99. It notes that although business and higher education agree on the importance of changes in this transition, major differences exist between how these two sectors propose to accomplish such improvements. The workshops suggest…

The act of exemplary teaching requires the orchestration of subject matter knowledge and pedagogical knowledge with pedagogical content knowledge. If this last component is not sufficiently present, then we may be quite efficient in presenting students with rote information. If this last component is sufficiently present (and carried out well),…

"Projet Mercure," or the Mercury Project, was a consortium of universities in North America that used videoconferencing to link with university classrooms in France; its purpose was to provide a new approach to teaching French language and civilization. This paper examines one such videoconference between both Austin Peay State…

This report focuses on trade unions in Britain as negotiators for and providers of education and training, either alone or in partnership with employers and educational institutions. Section 1 introduces the report's aims. Section 2 gives an overview of union involvement in education and training. It also introduces the tensions within current…

The GMD (German National Research Center for Information Technology) has developed the BSCW (Basic Support for Cooperative Work) Shared Workspace system within the last four years with the goal of transforming the Web from a primarily passive information repository to an active cooperation medium. The BSCW system is a Web-based groupware tool for…

This paper documents a collaborative effort between faculty members from Pellissippi State Technical Community College (Tennessee) and Northwestern Technical Institute (Georgia) to create and deliver an online class on medical terminology. The following six aspects of the project are described: (1) the collaborative effort, including the viability…

Since the restoration of Latvian independence in 1991 the issues of citizenship for non-Latvians and civic participation for all the people of Latvia have become acute. The paper provides statistical data on Latvia and states that, politically, Latvia is a parliamentary system of representative democracy that is directly accountable to the…

Reviews trends in community college transfer education and articulation between two- and four-year college programs. Describes the development and outcomes of an arrangement between Northern Michigan University in Marquette and Northwestern Michigan College through which a four-year criminal justice degree was offered as a residency program at a…

For Blacks to participate fully in higher education and professional achievements, colleges and school districts must work cooperatively to prepare Black high school graduates academically. Programs initiated by Indiana University Northwest and the Gary Public Schools identify promising high school students, steer them toward advanced courses, and…

Details cooperative agreements to finance new schools drawn up by growing school districts in Colorado and the corporations whose activities are responsible for that growth. The developers of an oil shale project and a tract housing project lent school districts money under very favorable terms. (JM)

Describes the Eastern North Carolina Teaching Resource Cooperative (COOP), a group of secondary schools working with East Carolina University to improve science education in a rural environment. Provides examples of cooperative activities such as teacher workshops, visiting scientist programs, student workshops, film festival, culture center, and…

Presents the viewpoint of a North American industrialist that the support of basic science by industry is essential for its future growth. (CS)

Describes a laboratory course on lasers for high school teachers. Suggests that more students could be reached by having teachers take such a course than teaching students directly. Lasers were lent for experimentation in high schools; teachers were invited to bring classes to the university to see research lasers. (Author/JN

College and university libraries, it is suggested, must cooperate as budgets dwindle and the need for more new periodicals escalates. A national periodical center modeled after the British National Lending Library is suggested, along with library automation at central storage libraries. (Author/MLW)

With reference to the cooperative education program at Northern Montana College, Havre, Montana, the author discusses how cooperative education can aid small rural colleges and universities. He lists advantages of cooperative education to students, employers, and the college, along with responsibilities of the participants. (MF)