Six years ago, Georgetown University's Office of International Programs, together with partner institutions, designed a large-scale, multi-year study of U.S. student learning abroad. The data support three broad conclusions with significant implications for study abroad policies and practices. This analysis concentrates for the most part on one…

Distance education in its many forms had been around for decades, but the Western Governors University (WGU) was arguably the first "virtual university" (VU) in the United States, or at least the first VU that gained widespread attention from the press and public. After the governors in the Western Governors Association announced they would create…

This article traces the development of the OpenCourseWare movement, including the origin of the concept at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the implementation of the MIT OpenCourseWare project, and the idea's spread into the global educational community, ultimately resulting in the formation of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. The…

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a unit within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, is the world's largest social science data archive. The data sets in the ICPRS database give the social sciences librarian/subject specialist an opportunity of providing value-added bibliographic…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe and discuss the development and the structure of a new international master on the subject of urban quality development and management (UQDM), and explore the potential of the process and the outcome in serving as models adoptable by faculty at other universities. Design/methodology/approach: The…

The "Technology Outlook Australian Tertiary Education 2013-2018: An NMC Horizon Project Regional Analysis" reflects a collaborative research effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and Open Universities Australia to help inform Australian educational leaders about significant developments in technologies supporting teaching,…

Several universities and a national laboratory are cooperating to study new extremely unstable radioactive nuclei. Descriptions of several projects, facilities, and activities are given. (RH)

Private colleges and universities are now under pressure from many directions. This compendium of suggestions for finding alternatives to often wasteful competitive relationships explores the potential benefits of statewide planning agencies in building cooperation between the public and private sectors of higher education. (Author)

An examination of 20 library network terminations reveals five major reasons for termination: lack of adequate funding, absorption by larger networks, loosely structured governance, partial termination of services, and networks programmed for short durations. Two tables present survey data. (RAA)

This report includes an essay discussing the rationale behind the promotion and growth of consortia and some of the practical problems of interinstitutional cooperation, and an annotated bibliography of 52 selected references on the topic. Administration, funding, founding purposes, common arrangements, and development processes are discussed with…

This paper describes a leadership development model which departs radically from the traditional leader preparation programs. Leadership is perceived not as a complex of skills and characteristics accruing to an individual but as the initiation and maintenance of an ongoing process of self and organizational renewal. The process envisioned…

The purpose of this technical paper is to outline the procedures used in designing the training programing in educational evaluation and development involving an elaborate collection of data from many sources and a drafting of a tentative plan which was then screened, reviewed, and critiqued by each of the consortium units. The data sources were…

The second technical paper describing the training program in educational evaluation and development contains the description and rationale for the training consortium, including discussions of the value of consortium agencies during planning and training. The following consortium units and their roles are described: University of Colorado, the…

In this third technical paper, the design for a training program for educational developers and evaluators is explicated. Mentioned are 1) the procedures by which the design was generated and 2) the salient characteristics of the several agencies which make up the consortium. The topics considered in this paper include 1) a general description of…