The Portals project examined the roles, functions, and strategies that students, teachers, and mentors bring to complex on-line, project-based learning experiences. Data for the study consisted of site observations, interviews, student work samples, and videotaped project presentations from twelve project-based mentoring relationships that were…

Participation in postsecondary education has increased in recent years. However, since students' postsecondary curricular choices are based in part on labor market demand and this demand typically varies across occupations, not all areas of postsecondary education are likely to increase at the same rate. This Issue Brief examines trends in awarded…

This presentation attempts to discuss some of the factors that enable a computer-based instructional system to function as part of a practical and effective learning system, operating within the academic mainstream of a university environment. (Author)

The utilization of the computer in education gives rise to an important problem: all media used in education are, in principle, good - but what is the right place of the computer? (Author)

A description of the design and operation of a computerized objective based instructional support system. Single-point-in-time criterion mastery testing and periodic trend test sampling combine to form a dynamic evaluation system. (Author)

Building this project helps explain theory of integrated circuitry. Technical Education is a supplement to Industrial Education. (MU)

Article concentrates on historians who are becoming proficient in utilizing computer technology for research purposes. (RK)

Schools in New Jersey have found that by putting their heads together, they can slash the whopping costs of computers. (Author)

Describes a course entitled Computer Applications in Science," offered by the Physics Department at Queen Mary College, London. Lists topics included in the lectures and topics handled by means of computer projects assigned to students. (Author/TS)

Article on computer technology and college libraries reprinted from College and Research Libraries, May 1971. (IR)