Because the current Council for Educational Technology (CET) open learning systems (OLS) program is ending and the new OLS program being planned has very different concerns, this report reviews the initial program, assesses its impact since 1975, and identifies factors which aided its success as an innovative program. Aims and objectives for each…

Presentation is made of an inservice teacher education laboratory course designed to reduce teacher mistrust of the term "open education," to provide experiences with informal classroom approaches, and to prepare teachers to take effective steps toward opening their own classrooms. The authors discuss laboratory planning problems involving space,…

Education as a lifelong process is not the same as schooling measured by years of attendance, the level of academic standards, and one's performance there. Schooling should provide the following functions, which comprise part of becoming educated: socialization, sorting, custody, knowledge and skills training, and encouragement of creativity and…

This paper describes the educational movement toward alternative schools and suggests further sources of information concerning this change in American education. Following an analytical comparison of open and traditional schools, the author discusses some of the most important perceived problems related to open schools. Problems noted are…

While the open education movements and educational technology are often seen as mutually hostile, the challenge in education for the future is to find ways to develop the full range of each individual's capacities and of doing so while putting control of the learning process as much as possible in the learner's hands: for educational technology,…

The idea of deschooling society is presented in diverse forms by this collection of criticisms, suggestions, and experiments for education. A first group of essays takes the historical perspective and examines the goals and problems of the past and their relation to our present educational system. Other articles criticize modern education,…

This abstract bibliography is a guide to recent ERIC documents concerning open education. The focus is on open education practices in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school. Entries in the first section were taken from "Research in Education"; entries in the second section were taken from "Current Index to Journals in Education." The…

Suggests that changes in special education are not going to take place overnight. In fact, they will not take place at all unless the open classroom replaces the traditional classroom. It seems that special education class rooms will be influenced by the open classroom as the open education movement continues to spread. (Author/AM)

An interview of Alice Murton, one of the pioneers of English informal education, and a director of the National Froebel Foundation in London; her work as infant teacher, headmistress, and HMI spanned some 50 years. (Author/JM)

Considers the notion of the extended university and its implications for the library of the future. (Author/RK)

Argues that we cannot transplant'' the open classroom from its English culture base and expect it to work in our society. Suggests that we be wary of cheap'' innovations and that open classrooms should be viewed as an alternative to our formal programs rather than as a panacea for all our ecucational problems. Recommends the evolution of a small…

Educators are warned against trying to implement open education without first understanding and believing in the philosophical, personal, and professional roots'' from which present open education practices have sprung. Twenty-nine assumptions about children's learning and about knowledge that reflect the philosophy of most open education…

What appears to be new conceptions in education may really be a new package with a new name, containing the same old product. (Author/MB)

Surveys the rapid acceleration of innovation in recent years. (MB)

Findings from a study of 42 Israeli elementary schools indicate that schools which adopted technological innovation (open education) were characterized by significantly more of the organizational processes associated with the self-renewing school than when schools which adopted managerial (the management team) or multilevel (the management team…