Basic principles of open education as they have developed over the past ten years are examined, and aspects of advocacy are identified which are considered ultimately unproductive and detrimental to the development of sound, acceptable classroom practice. (Author/MJB)

These comments on open education, team teaching, focus on skills, individualized learning; and, felxible and community electives are part of a report written for the Ford Foundation by the former director of the Curriculum Laboratory of Goldsmith's College, University of London. (JM)

A professor of open education defends the goals and methodology of "informal schooling". (CS)

Presents the open'' classroom: its development and its character. (RK)

Discussion of technological advancement, the generation gap, and the resulting new concepts in education designed to prevent future shock.'' (SP)

An attempt to provide a tentative set of categories for analysis and evaluation of the increasingly popular attempts to use space and time as educational tools. It has been based on the belief that the variable use of space and time does not in itself signal significant educational change or progress, rather, it is only by viewing the impact of…

A high school general education teacher tells about her classroom: the physical environment, the behavior and attitudes of students and teacher, and the need for community involvement to insure success in open education. (SP)

Discusses how the crisis-oriented search for immediate panaceas has frustrated significant and positive educational change. (GT)

Excerpts from students' writing illustrate the differences between Foxfire and other learning approaches and the dilemmas students face in Foxfire classes, including choices, decisions and responsibilities; developing new skills in a new process; participating in the democratic process; effectively working together; and nontraditional evaluations.…

Provides a background to the establishment of virtual universities in Korea and presents a framework for course development. Highlights include the use of distance, or open education; reasons for rapid changes in higher education; course objectives; team building; and future possibilities. (Contains 33 references.) (LRW)

Contemporary transitions in political and economic globalization are being used to press universities into becoming "transnational businesses," seemingly driven by a primary concern for marketing educational commodities. The neo-liberal politics driving these currents in universities are increasing the multiple online and offline…

Progressive education, open education, and whole language can be seen as part of a larger "progressive tradition" in American education. All three of these educational movements are "child centered," challenge the rigidity of traditional school organizations, view the nature of knowledge and the purpose of schools differently…

In considering the use of open education to meet the needs of present and future generations, this article attempted to answer a few basic questions: 1) Why will not the old ways do? 2) Where is it all leading? 3) What are the characteristics of this new system? 4) What should this new system be like? (Author/RK)

A growing conflict between two fundamental American values, meritocracy and egalitarianism, is at the heart of a major upheaval in our social system. Author investigated the part that open education may play in this conflict if it is implemented on a large scale. (Author/RK)