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Aviation/Space, 1979
This is a three-day refresher course. Its intended audience is composed of personnel active in aerospace related fields, but who may not have a degree in aerospace engineering, and aerospace engineers who want to review the fundamentals of flight and gain a historical perspective. (BB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aerospace Education, Course Content, Engineering Education
Sugerman, Deborah A. – 1983
Wilderness Adventure, an Elderhostel course sponsored by Unity College in Maine, gives people over 60 the challenge of living and traveling in a remote wilderness environment. Each course consists of four days of canoeing and a day of rappelling in northern Maine. The program attempts to provide older adults with a personal growth experience via…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adventure Education, Camping, Canoeing
Jioia, Joseph – 1974
A course in post-Civil War U. S. history was offered through a local newspaper during the fall semester of 1973. One instructional unit was presented each week for 13 weeks in the newspaper, and the final exam was offered on campus. Weekly units included behavioral objectives, historical interpretation, self-tests, and bibliographies. The mid-term…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, American History
Arnoff, Kathie-Jo – Graduate Woman, 1979
Participants in a nationwide summer program of minicourses for adults over 60, called Elderhostel, live on campus and choose from at least three one-week courses taught by regular faculty. There are no exams, credits or grades. The logistics of the program and financial costs and problems are discussed. (JMD)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Financial Problems, Higher Education, Minicourses
Cofer-Henderson, Karen – 1992
The Career Advancement through Short-term Training (CAST) project offered comprehensive career guidance and counseling to those persons needing to upgrade technical skills, those needing flexible training schedules, those moving into new careers, and those needing prerequisite training. Materials and products were developed to implement a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Guidance, Career Planning, Competency Based Education
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1988
This bulletin aims to identify good practice in the adoption of a strategic approach to developing short courses in work-related nonadvanced further education (WRNAFE) in Great Britain. The focus is on vocational updating and retraining aimed principally at those in employment, usually at full cost to employers/sponsors. The bulletin discusses…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries, Inplant Programs
Harlacher, Ervin L. – 1969
Embodying the general theme that the next great thrust of community college development will be in the direction of community services, this volume describes and analyzes the relationship between the American community college and the local community. It discusses community service programs and the organizational patterns they reveal and explores…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Community Services, Courses
Breazeale, Don – 1989
A questionnaire was sent to 1,705 Texas farmers and ranchers who had either purchased farm management software provided by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service (purchasers) or had participated in Extension Service short courses and had purchased farm management software (participant/purchasers). A total of 489 farmers/ranchers responded.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Farm Management
Smith, Suzanna; Taylor, Barbara – 1989
This technical report presents the background, procedures, and outcomes of a shortcourse conducted at the University Center of Dschang (UCD), Cameroon, July 9-15, 1989. The shortcourse trained the 32 participants to use curriculum planning skills to analyze how the UCD curriculum addresses the needs of Cameroon women and prepares graduates to work…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agriculture, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
Haslam, Carol – Journal of Educational Television and Other Media, 1980
Describes the Open University's extension of its original role into continuing education, not only in the areas of professional and in-service training but also in community education. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Stamper, Anne – 1998
This book traces the Women's Institute (WI's) movement and its contribution to the lifelong learning of rural women for 100 years and how it led to the opening of Denman College in 1948. Part 1 describes the following: WI's start in Canada; its move to England and Wales; the women who molded and guided the WI after the First World War; education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Foreign Countries, General Education
Hyman, Stanley D. – Manpower, 1975
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Course Descriptions, Employment Services
Training at the Grassroots: An Integrated Approach to Training Library Assistants in Southern Sudan.

Rosenberg, Diana; O'Connor, Brigid – Information Development, 1988
Discusses the development of a library training program by the University of Juba Library in Southern Sudan, and describes three levels of courses offered to library staff. Details are given of the curriculum, training staff, selection of trainees, and teaching tools, as well as examples of problems encountered. (CLB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Certification, Curriculum Design, Developing Nations
Patton, Carole, Ed. – Professional Engineer, 1979
Describes the mandatory continuing education requirements, for professional engineers that have been enacted into law in some states. The requirements could be satisfied by taking a certain number of professional development hours (PDH), continuing education units (CEU), or any other activities acceptable to the state board. (GA)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education Units, Engineering Education, Engineers
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Office for Continuing Education. – 1969
This report provides statistical information on the development of continuing education since 1965. Although there is an increase in the number of part time students at most campuses each year, in many instances evening credit courses are not offered in a pattern which will allow enrollees to make consistent progress toward an undergraduate…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correspondence Study, Credit Courses, Enrollment