CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH INNOVATIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION WERE PRESENTED. A CASE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED AT AN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY TO DETERMINE FACULTY RESPONSE TO INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION (ITV). AN ASSESSMENT WAS MADE OF (1) THE DEGREE OF SYMPATHY AND ANTIPATHY EXPRESSED TOWARD THE INNOVATION, (2) THE "GENERAL BELIEF SYSTEM" AND…

THE COMPLETE TRANSCRIPTION OF A 5-DAY WORKSHOP CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS AND UNIVERSITIES WAS PRESENTED. THE PARTICIPANTS CONSISTED OF 54 REPRESENTATIVES FROM UNIVERSITIES AND COMPUTER-ASSOCIATED AGENCIES AND CORPORATIONS. TOPICS LISTED ON THE CONFERENCE AGENDA WERE (1) "COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION, LEARNING ASPECTS," (2)…

AS ENVISIONED, THE REGIONAL COLLEGE IS JUSTIFIED BY THE MANY KINDS OF STUDENTS IT CAN SERVE AND THE VARIETY AND APPROPRIATENESS OF THE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES IT CAN OFFER. VANCOUVER ISLAND HAS TRANSPORTATION DIFFICULTIES, A MARKEDLY UNEVEN POPULATION, AND SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN FORESTRY EXPLOITATION. POPULATION GROWTH ON THE ISLAND HAS BEEN GREAT AND…

Wholesome and promising change is occurring in American education, with interest in adult educational opportunities expanding in impressive proportions. Yet a kind of riptide exists between the interest in lifelong learning and the apparently limited financial resources available for conventional education for transitional students. On what basis…

In a project designed to improve elementary school instruction in mathematics, the California Department of Education collected achievement and profile data from 67 elementary schools. Schools were classified according to size, socioeconomic status, minority representation and mobility of students, city size, and type of community. Profile data…

The rate of change in education in the 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's made necessary a continuing reevaluation of higher education's past and present and its future needs. In this report, the cases for and against major institutional self-study are debated, and such questions as what to study, how to organize such research, the necessary ingredients…

This report deals with two basic areas related to open learning system development. It identifies nine functions or operating characteristics which need to be present in a fully complete open learning system. These characteristics deal with the formulation of objectives, the incentives and rewards that students may bring to open learning, the…

The three papers presented relate to the problems of planning adult education and are titled "Adult Education for Whom? A Qualitative Analysis of the Customers,""From Literacy to Cultural Development," and "Out-of-School Education: Part of the System of a Parallel System?". The first paper trys to show that any discussion of adult education must…

Designed for the exclusive purpose of accompanying the Project EDNEED (Empirical Determination of Nationally Essential Educational Data) classification document, this volume comprises the third of a five-volume final report. It provides uniform definitions for vocational education terms found in the EDNEED classification document, and aids in…

Academic planning in higher education is strongly influenced by business management theories and practices. The author questions the usefulness of this approach because the nature of higher education differs from the nature of a profit-making business. However, rational planning to achieve efficiency is relevant if efficiency is not confined to…

This report sponsored by the Medical Library Association makes recommendations on the planning and teaching of continuing education courses. Included are discussions of ways to determine the scope and objectives of a course, gear a course towards a target population, and limit a course in scope so as to include all material within a limited time…

This report investigates the concept of individualized education both from a descriptive view of its general features and purposes and from an analytical view of specific components in such systems, identifying the component steps necessary for planning and implementing individualization. Chapter one deals with the importance of individualized…

This report was intended to provide a basis and rationale for the organization and development of a multi-State consortium to produce catalogs of performance objectives and criterion-referenced measures in occupational education. Information is centered around two elements which are the major concerns: (1) The accountability phenomenon and its…

The evaluation of the qualitative aspects of education is not as simple a task as the evaluation of quantitative aspects. The research frequently fails to offer the educational planner concrete guidance in the area of educational quality. The planner must work in a framework of conflicting criteria requiring political decisions, with limited…

The Educational Development Conference was established in 1972 as a national program directed at gathering public opinion for planning educational policies in New Zealand. The following aspects of the organization of the program are discussed: initial organization, regional committees, publicity, information materials, formation of groups,…