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Download full textBarker, Bruce O. – 1985
Despite increased per pupil cost of programs, facilities, and certified personnel caused by low student enrollments, small rural high schools can offer broad and diverse curricula. This paper briefly describes 31 model programs used by small and rural high schools to maintain or expand curriculum offerings and lists advantages and disadvantages of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Class Organization, College School Cooperation, Community Resources
Teunissen, J. M. F. – 1983
A report describes "Television as a Meeting Place" (TMP), a series of sixteen 30-minute television programs/modules. TMP concentrates on enhancing the acquisition of German as a second language for the approximately 200,000 young immigrant children 7 to 10 years old, particularly Turkish children, living in the Federal Rupublic of…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Case Studies, Children, Childrens Television
Bilson, Barbara, Ed. – Inside English, 1983
Designed primarily for English faculty at two-year colleges in California, "Inside English" includes articles on instructional innovations in teaching remedial writing, literature courses, and freshman composition, and on major curricular, administrative, and employment issues in the field. The four issues in volume 9 contain the following feature…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Bringing the Humanities to the Countryside: Improving Access to the Humanities in Western Minnesota.
Groen, Gerrit, Ed.; Pichaske, David, Ed. – 1985
The use of new technologies to deliver courses in humanities to adult, off-campus students in rural western Minnesota is described in nine essays. A 4-year project was funded to improve access to the humanities, resulting in the redesign of 40 courses since 1981. In addition discussing the background of the project, evaluative mechanisms, and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Audiotape Recordings, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction
Institute for Educational Leadership, Washington, DC. – 1981
Thirty-nine papers on the place of technology in education are collected in this volume of conference proceedings. Several themes run through the collection, appearing in different combinations in different papers. Among the major topics discussed are the applications of computer technology to different aspects of instruction and school…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Consortia
American Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC. – 1981
The applications of telecommunications technology, computers, and other technologies are addressed in five papers. In an overview, Raymond J. Lewis, Jr. suggests that colleges and universities are finding that telecommunication technologies offer cost effective ways of reaching adult learners, and that open broadcast television has been the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Broadcast Television, Cable Television, Computer Assisted Instruction
McBride, Jack – 1978
This 1978 report on the model regional open learning system of the University of Mid-America (UMA), Lincoln, Nebraska, summarizes the activities of the following program areas: course development, delivery, research and dissemination, and governance and administration. Descriptions are provided of courses in the following stages of development:…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Annual Reports, College Administration, Consortia
Walsh, Patrick L. – 1975
Approximately 700 questionnaires were mailed, and 365 usable responses obtained, in a study of persons who had inquired about the State University of Nebraska (SUN) spring 1975 telecourse offerings but who did not enroll. This working paper and executive summary compare the questionnaire respondents to SUN's fall 1975 learner population in terms…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Applicants, Costs, Decision Making
GROOMBRIDGE, BRIAN; AND OTHERS – 1966
STUDIES ON THE EDUCATIONAL USES AND POTENTIAL OF TELEVISION IN CANADA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, AND JAPAN OUTLINE AND DISCUSS (1) THE SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT OF ETV IN EACH NATION, (2) KINDS OF PROGRAMS AND THEIR PURPOSES, (3) EXPLOITATION OF ETV BY ADULTS, (4) RESEARCH ON AUDIENCE CHARACTERISTICS AND NEEDS, AND (5) FORMS OF COOPERATION BETWEEN…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Agency Cooperation, Audience Participation
Morgan, Colin; Glatter, Ron – 1980
The British Open University (OU) offers university degree programs to adults who are employed and study at home. It does so through a nationwide universal access (open admission) policy. A key feature of this program is that it imposes traditional university standards of excellence. Access is not limited by formal entry requirements, geography,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Administrative Problems, Admission Criteria
Gaudray, Francine, Comp. – 1970
The demands made by modern technological society on the traditional educational system are briefly discussed. The remainder of the compendium describes 11 projects which are using educational technology, principally televised instruction, with success. Projects from Brazil, Canada, West Germany, France, England, Japan, Poland, and the United…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Farmer Education, Adult Literacy
Brenner, John – 1997
A study conducted at Southwest Virginia Community College investigated the cognitive styles of students who were enrolled in distance education courses for one semester. Because video-based presentations of material severely limit teacher-student interaction, the distance learner must possess self-discipline, self-organization, and self-planning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Community Colleges
Thoms, Karen Jarrett – 1997
This paper addresses a systematic approach to training faculty to teach via two-way interactive television (ITV). The following ten training modules are presented: (1) Introduction to the ITV System, including terminology and ITV history/development; (2) Making ITV Work for You, including syllabus construction, ITV equipment, and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Course Content
Wolfe, Thomas E. – 1998
Current technology provides many new ideas and alternatives to traditional education and training practices. From the experience of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Academic Instructor School (AIS) and current research in the field, teaching via interactive television (teleseminar/video teletraining) requires new teaching skills and new ways of thinking…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Audiovisual Communications, Classroom Communication, Communication Skills
Zigerell, James – 1984
This study provides an extensive review of the literature on distance education and of representative distance education projects and institutions in the United States and abroad, emphasizing those using telecommunications technologies. The introductory section includes a sketch of the information age and its implications for adult education and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Broadcast Industry, Cable Television, Communications Satellites
