Stepping Stones is an award-winning British program to promote access to nonvocational courses for people with mental health problems. An adult education service and local colleges work together to support learners' emotional needs and overcome such barriers as financial problems, medication effects, and lack of staff training in working with this…

This discussion of educational technology and the role of computers is based on the author's experiences with the United Kingdom's National Development Programme in Computer Assisted Learning (NDPCAL). Highlights include curriculum development; teachers' roles; research and development; evaluation; control group experiments; instructional…