This paper presents a Knowledge Sharing project at the Aarhus School of Business (Denmark). As a result of a close cooperation between the Faculty of Modern Languages and the Library of the Aarhus School of Business, a Learning Resource Centre (LRC) is being established. The LRC serves as an exploratorium for the development and testing of new…

This applied dissertation was designed to help fourth-grade teachers successfully integrate computer-related technology into the curriculum. The fourth-grade teachers did not incorporate student use of technologies into the curriculum-related activities or plan lessons collaboratively with the researcher. There was no correlation between classroom…

The teaching/learning process must drive technology planning. Over the past several years an effort at California Polytechnic State University has been underway to ensure that the culture of participatory and strategic governance promotes this principle, with both the users and the providers being of the same understanding and participating as…

This proceedings contains papers from the 1998 annual conference of the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives (PIALA). After welcoming remarks from Henry Robert and Isabel Rungrad, the following papers are included: "Sharing Our Successes, Discussing Our Future: A Survey of Pacific Collections Activities--Report from the…

The Centre for Research and Learning in Regional Australia is investigating the elements of social capital and developing a set of indicators that show when social capital is building. The indicators can be used where groups or organizations with a shared purpose engage in productive interactions that benefit not only the individual member groups…

In their constant groping toward achievement standards, the high schools of this country have developed what is known as "cooperative testing." This development is not recent. Cooperative testing dates back further than the standardized testing movement itself. For instance, it has been customary for about 50 years in New York and in…

Schools of education must go beyond public school teacher preparation to prepare men and women to work in a variety of learning settings. The C.W. Post School of Education at Long Island University has developed innovative programs and cooperative arrangements to meet the needs of the postindustrial society. (Author/MSE)

A model for cooperative education has been developed that can be applied successfully in liberal arts. It involves the use of cooperative education in the first two years as a means of invigorating educational and career planning and exploration, and as an integral part of the students' general education. (LRA)

The Future Farmers of America (FFA) is more than a leadership development organization and when used as an intracurricular activity, it can serve as a teaching tool. The FFA adds advantages to the program in areas such as supervised experience, award motivation, providing real world experience, public relations, travel, and competition. (LRA)

Combining literacy with career development seems to be a logical activity for adult education practitioners. Program models (e.g., Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, Work Incentive Program, and Career Education) have been developed which demonstrate the feasibility of such practices. Article surveys several of these programs, presents…

Describes the national adult literacy campaign in Britain, with particular attention to experience in Birmingham, England. Local education authorities organize and coordinate programs of individual and group instruction in various settings with volunteer tutors forming the backbone of the services, overcoming student hesitancy through informal,…

Topics addressed in the annual meeting and report of the Association of American Medical Colleges for 1979 include: AAMC cooperation with other organizations, quality control and cost containment in health care education, educational initiatives, biomedical research, faculty, students, institutional development, teaching hospitals, and information…

Higher education in the 1980s is addressed with a focus on two major questions: (1) Who are the learners likely to be? and (2) How can the higher educational community act and react in positive and future-oriented ways? Possible changes in enrollment and student characteristics, and some alternatives to the traditional educational system are…

Project Work/Learn at Birmingham Southern College, an attempt to build two-way college/community bridges, is described. Two-way requirements for building college/community bridges include: clear and distinct purposes for persons and institutions, mutual utilization of resources, two-way activity, and two-way management. (MLW)

Describes Partnering for Elementary Environmental Science, a collaborative project between Ohio State University at Mansfield, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and the Science and Mathematics Network of Central Ohio, designed to provide professional development opportunities for elementary teachers, improve science education in rural…