Describes the development of a hypermedia environment model that evolved from a project at the University of Southampton. Examines the use of this interactive environment as a way of providing online resources to teachers and students of second language learning, and discusses the design process of this hypermedia model. (JMV)

Examines the conformity of national education policies of UNESCO member states to the principles of UNESCO's Convention against Discrimination in Education (adopted in 1960). Argues that international organizations play an important role in defining, transmitting worldwide, and institutionalizing (primarily Western) educational principles and…

This paper contends that former Eastern bloc countries, which have rejected centralized, authoritarian political systems, are emulating a United Kingdom school development model which itself is authoritarian, centralized, and coercive. The paper characterizes that authoritarianism and suggests an alternative educational model of centralized…

Discusses the role of interactive learning techniques in educational environments. Highlights include the change in educational environments; computer uses in education; the changing educational model from knowing to learning; the interactive learning environment; and the values of learning. (AEF)

Examines a new professional practice in higher education that supports learning through computer-mediated communication; offers a preliminary model for its development. The model involves users' participation in collaborative networked learning for exploring and developing resource knowledge and support strategies. (AEF)

Examines multichannel learning, using learning channels such as teachers, to connect learners to knowledge, skills, and information found in the immediate learning environment and the community or delivered from a distance. Also discusses international use of multichannel learning as educational development in the Philippines and Haiti. (JMV)

Examines changes in Latin America which affect distance education; presents five directions for Latin American distance education; and discusses economic, cultural, and social problems of technologically mediated education. Describes extending education through technical mediation in Mexico, and how collaboration between government and educational…

Examines the ending of reform efforts in the former Soviet Union immediately prior to the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Indicates that inadequate facilities and resources, lack of trained personnel, promotion on noneducational grounds, economic hardship, and bureaucratic resistance hindered these reforms. (15 references)…

Describes how videoconferencing was used at the University of Ulster (Northern Ireland) as a medium to deliver three modules to continuing education students over a five-year period. Discusses planning and implementation, and the move from conventional teaching to distance learning. Notes professional development reached an effective level and in…

Discusses the restructuring of secondary vocational education in Hungary through the World Bank project. Highlights include human resources development; occupational training improvement; levels of intervention of the World Bank project; the technical assistance, equipment, and fellowship programs; educational policies and quality; and future…

Author suggests and discusses the following recommendations to biological educators for improving science education: (1) we must make our case to the public; (2) we must hold ourselves accountable; (3) we must stress the benefits of learning; (4) we must personalize our teaching; and (5) we must make our courses relevant and interesting. (PR)

Adult continuing education's response to European unemployment is characterized as a move from marginality to expansion (1980-85) and from expansion to encapsualization or institutionalization (1985-91). The rapidly changing context may mark the future as a search for collective action. (SK)

Examines the development of the field of campus child care over the past two decades in terms of Katz's constructs of the developmental stages of teachers. The discussion is framed in a national context to bring attention to the importance of the ecological nature of the development. (SH)

Identifies developmental challenges and a research agenda for campus children's centers that are based on the issues and programs discussed in this special issue on campus children's centers. Discusses the types of demographic, descriptive, experimental, and clinical studies included in the agenda. (SH)

Describes principal characteristics of traditional education in island societies before Western contact, patterns of Western exploration and colonization, and origins of formal Western education in the region. Identifies critical contemporary educational issues: choice of educational delivery systems, establishing the locus of authority,…