Discussed is using videotape as a means of providing classes with a speaker unable to visit with them in person. The results of a study comparing the effectiveness of taped to live presentations are included. (LS)

The author suggests that students of early music must have knowledge of those styles' essential improvisatory features so they can make spontaneous and musically appropriate choices when performing music written prior to 1750, knowing that the printed page is an outline to be amplified upon. (KC)

Provides an overview for searching the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database on Lockheed's DIALOG system, noting changes during its 11-year history. Background, focus, overlap with other files, vocabulary, full text searching, truncation, search saves, search tips, search examples, superselect, full text backup, and search aids…

Suggests ways that audiovisual personnel can meet the needs of the handicapped. Provides tips for handling the following areas: analyzing needs, matching needs and services, planning for updating, cultivating staff awareness, keeping records, and publicizing services. Includes a list of organizations that provide learning aids to the handicapped.…

Gives a brief introduction to the wide array of population resources available on the World Wide Web portion of the Internet. Discusses accessing Web material; population resource guides; search tools; demographic software available on the Web; population data; electronic journals, books, and conference documents; electronic newspapers; and…

Explains the implications for business educators of globalization of business. Provides an annotated list of resources and a table of additional Web resources for teaching international business concepts. (SK)

Reviews two current resources stimulated by the 1985 publication, "Becoming a Nation of Readers": (1) "Counterpoint and Beyond: A Response to Becoming a Nation of Readers," (Jane L Davidson, editor); and (2) "Becoming a Nation of Readers: What Parents Can Do," (Marilyn R. Binkley, preparer). (MM)

This article reviews environmental resources of the Internet readily available through several large information providers including EcoNet, EnviroLink, The WELL, and bulletin board systems. Provides information on access and cost. (LZ)

Reviews four key Internet sites that offer environmental health research data, grant programs, environmental education resources, networking, and other environmental information. Provides addresses and brief descriptions of the resources. Discusses methods for making queries. (LZ)

What is to be captured and how it is to be reused are issues that currently dominate a learning object discourse constructed around the potential for technology to enable learning resource management through the collection and reuse and learning objects. Efficiency and quality gains are promised for institutions that engage with the learning…

The unprecedented growth in the older adult population combined with increased scholarly interest in family dynamics has resulted in the gradual expansion of family gerontology as its own area of study. Consisting of both university faculty and practitioners, family gerontology educators integrate multiple disciplines in order to teach about later…

In this article Nick Swarbrick, Glynnis Eastwood and Kris Tutton highlight the importance of the outdoor environment as an educational resource, and explore the relationship between self-esteem and successful learning through the forest school project being run in Oxfordshire. It looks at the history and practice of forest school in England, and…

Because the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ERIC/EECE) ceased to exist on January 1, 2004, the responsibility for preparing the "ERIC/EECE Report" has been transferred to the Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative. ECAP consists of a group of projects and programs in early childhood education within the…

Educational inequalities are evident even before children start school. Some educational achievement gaps widen out as individuals progress further through the education sequence and into the labour market, especially those connected to disadvantaged students. Thus, there is a significant need for careful evaluation of educational policies that…