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Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2017
Rural communities all too often face scarce funding, instructors and facilities, forcing institutions to choose between offering a variety of introductory courses across a breadth of subjects or providing more narrowly focused, sequenced programs within one or two priority Career Clusters. Providing learners access to diverse career pathways in…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Rural Schools, Access to Education, Partnerships in Education
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Thomas, Justin B.; Donaldson, Joseph L. – Journal of Extension, 2014
This article describes the design, development, and delivery of an Extension community cable television program, "Sugar Free with Justin T.," in Roane County, Tennessee. The program targets diabetics, pre-diabetics, and those who care for them, with practical information and demonstrations to improve dietary quality. In addition to…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Extension Education, Health Education, Public Health
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Bates, Rodger A. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2012
Distance education strategies for remotely deployed, highly mobile, or institutionalized populations are reviewed and critiqued. Specifically, asynchronous, offline responses for special military units, Native Americans on remote reservations, prison populations and other geographically, temporally or technologically isolated niche populations are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Distance Education, Correctional Institutions
Blaine, Catherine K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the relationship between mode of instructional delivery and course completion for students attending two community colleges. Course completion is defined as finishing the course with a grade of C or better, thus getting college credit and remaining in good academic standing. The research hypothesis is that distance…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Distance Education, Academic Persistence
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Walsh, Marilyn – Educational Perspectives, 2002
The E-Learn program is a collaboration of all seven University of Hawai'i (UH) community colleges to offer a distance-delivered Associate in Arts degree. The core mission of the UH Community Colleges is to put postsecondary education within the reach of every resident of the state. To provide that access, community colleges must be affordable,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Online Courses, Educational Cooperation, Associate Degrees
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1975
The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among topics covered are increasing equal opportunity, including desegregation assistance, civil rights advisory services, education of disadvantaged children, grants to local education agencies, migrant children, neglected and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, School Desegregation, Civil Rights, Disadvantaged Youth