This paper integrates the results of a comprehensive literature search on the topic of the knowledge based economy with a preliminary analysis of responses about the knowledge based economy from a Canada-wide survey of members of the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE). A knowledge based economy survey was developed…

Attempts to distinguish between training and education are becoming somewhat petty. Training, although narrower in scope, is still concerned with human learning and follows the learning theory. Trainers should be aware of the needs of their adult students and the recognition they look for as adults. (DS)

Campus-expansiveness, decentralization, cooperative movements in education and nontraditional study all have changed the national picture of education as one to embrace everyone in the new learning society. (Author/PG)

Community colleges can offer exciting and satisfying programs for drop-outs, stop-outs, and shoved-outs - if they adapt their traditional procedures creatively. (Editor)

Describes a cooperative community education program encompassing 12 school districts and 18 communities in the Battle Creek, Michigan, metropolitan area. (Author/DN)

Describes the Open University of the United Kingdom, established by Royal Charter to serve adult students. (Author/RK)

Robert von Erdberg advocated an intensive, individualized education for the working classes to wield them together with other groups in Germany after unification in 1871. This attempt to help the workers socially and economically revolutionized the concept of adult education. (DS)

Meeting the educational and personal development needs of adults in transition presents the greatest challenge to higher education. This article discusses a study to determine how adults in transition believe their educational programs to be helpful. (JOW)

A cooperative project, involving Empire State College and other institutions within the State University of New York, is described that introduces faculties and administrators at traditional campuses to the nontraditional modes and methodologies of instruction at Empire State. Participants' evaluation of the project are provided. (MLW)

Investigation of adult students' ability to evaluate their own educational progress showed that adults consistently rate their work higher than either the instructor or the instructional designer does. The degree to which adults find instructor evaluation aversive appears to be related to confidence in their knowledge of the subject matter. (EAO)

Presents an overview of behavioral effects of neurological disorders. Presents Gagne's model of the learning sequence (apprehension, acquisition, storage, and retrieval) to aid in the identification, design, and evaluation of instructional intervention techniques for neurologically impaired adults. (Author/SK)

The teacher of an English-as-a-Second-Language class with a wide range of levels and needs describes the evolution of a diagnostic-prescriptive system. The central concept is the empowerment of adult students in a humanistically structured classroom and entails the charting of individual progress in reading and other competencies. (SK)