Almost non-existent five years ago, the use of online courses has grown dramatically in Maryland, with more than 25 courses now available. Online course enrollments have also increased from 31 students in 2003 to more than 600 in 2006. A major reason for this remarkable growth has been the Maryland Students Online Consortium (MSOC), a state-local…

This performance report, presented in chart form, outlines progress on five goals of the Massachusetts Workplace Literacy Consortium. Under each goal are a number of objectives, and for each objective the chart describes activities, accomplishments, responsible party, and time frame. Goals are as follows: (1) "Enhance the Productivity and…

The University Consortium Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, allows the development of joint programs by the local college and the extension units of three distant universities. (Author/MLF)

This report summarizes the results of a meeting of representatives from 12 European institutes for curriculum development and educational research. The meeting, held in December 1989 in the Hague, Netherlands, considered the desirability and feasibility of establishing a European consortium of institutes for development and research in education.…

This directory includes 115 cooperative arrangements involving 1,398 members. It is designed as a tool that can be used to promote cooperation and association and to assist research. Included in this directory are a list of consortia, program information, consortium directors, and location of consortium members. The cooperative arrangements cited…

This report examines consortia leadership factors in institutions of higher education (IHE) responding to a New York State Department of Education mandate for performance based teacher education (PBTE). To assess the effect of leadership on program registration, the following questions were investigated: (1) the nature of leadership within and…

A rationale is offered for the use of communication satellites, which would provide a means for transcending the difficulties of distance, for the formation of academic constellations to conduct courses, coordinate cooperative research activities, and conduct academic business. One means of instituting satellite usage would be the formation of…

The idea of a continuing association of principals assisting principals brought about the formation of the Learning Environments Consortium, discussed in this paper. The principals involved in this association, the paper notes, are committed to developing student-centered programs. They work together in such activities as school site visits,…

This is the final report on the project to design new patterns for training research and development (R&D) personnel in education; the project was conducted by a consortium of educational agencies coordinated throught the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh. The report is bound in eight sections: goals and activities…

The West Tennessee Research Develpment Consortium was formed to increase research potential in 2 developing West Tennessee colleges: Freed-Hardeman College and Lane College. The research development program sought to train in research methodology 1 person on each campus and to offer concurrently an in-service training program to 8 faculty members…

This inventory-directory provides information on the formal cooperative arrangements of colleges and universities in the State University of New York system. Each entry gives the title of arrangement, names the coordinator or contact person, the beginning date, the participating institutions, and describes the purposes of the arrangement or…

This document is a report of the commission appointed to study the over-all role of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), to appraise its current condition, and to recommend its future direction. The first chapter, "Context of Crisis and Tension," outlines the problems and issues facing teacher education institutions…

A program to improve the education of disadvantaged youth through better training of teacher trainers and teachers is being initiated at the University of Missouri (Columbia). The program consists of four operations: (1) Research and Development, (2) Activation, (3) Dissemination, and (4) Application and Evaluation. Not only is the training of a…

As part of a program to develop and implement a program for training teachers and teacher trainers of the underprivileged, five educators participated in an Educational Researchers' Consortium. An edited version of the educators' remarks and observations is presented. A bibliography and abstracts of literature in the field of education are given.…

This document lists the names, addresses, telephone numbers, chief administrative officers and 797 members of 80 consortia in higher education reported to meet five criteria. Each consortium: is a voluntary, formal organization, has three or more member institutions, has multiacademic programs, is administered by at least one full-time…