For the sake of university personnel just starting a Dean's Grant Program for teacher education in mainstreaming, the author synthesizes successful program design techniques from existing Dean's Grant Programs. (SJL)

The "honors semester," in which students from a national pool meet for a semester of classroom and field studies focusing on a single theme investigated from the perspective of several disciplines, is described. The combination of physical setting, theme, and academic investigation is found to be extremely influential on students. (MSE)

This chapter examines the Millennial generation's implications for the design and delivery of student affairs programs and services. The unique characteristics of the Millennial students offer insights into the programs and services that this generation of college students will want and need.

This paper investigates a case of designing, implementing, and evaluating a semester-long culture portfolio project in a Korean culture class in an American university setting. The paper addresses the following four issues: (1) How does the project help the students gain insights into a particular aspect of Korean culture and encourage them to…

Attention shifted in recent years from design and implementation to use and usefulness of quality assurance. Scientific studies focus increasingly on quality assurance's impact on curricula and individual teachers. Which factors influence follow-up activities and what is their relation to improvement of education? One factor that we single out is…

Purpose: This study aims to consider the complexities of planning and implementation of a reform in the Swedish system of higher vocational education and training (VET). The study object of this article is the Swedish reform with advanced vocational education (AVE). The two main questions the study aims to address are: "What are the main…

This paper reviews the principles, implementation, management, formats, problems, and research in modular instruction. A module is defined as a self-contained, independent unit of a planned series of learning activities designed to help the student accomplish certain well-defined objectives. The learner is able to proceed at his own rate, choose…

A third-year medical clerkship in ambulatory care combining a long-term structure, defined curriculum, and many clinical encounters addresses the problem of limited numbers of patients, a changing clinical environment, and the need for specific skills in ambulatory care. (MSE)

Sixteen things to avoid in planning and implementing inservice programs are listed including problems in the areas of faculty involvement, scheduling, flexibility, funding, and non-monetary support. (BD)

Traces adult education in Germany back to Berlin in the 1820s. Discusses the organization of the present day adult education system focusing on Berlin. Indicates the importance of American educators' awareness of how international colleagues are approaching similar issues. (JOW)

Discusses how the collapse of online learning enterprises at several colleges and universities offers lessons for all in this still-promising field. (EV)

Responses from 105 of 200 chief academic officers found the following: 49% had adult degree programs, only 40% had mission statements focusing on adult education, 87% grant credit for prior learning, 85% allow part-time degree completion, only 17% offer nontraditional delivery methods, and only 29% offer assistance to nonnative speakers of…

Case studies and questionnaire responses from 59 recent registered nurse (RN) graduates identified differences in six role socialization processes (individual-collective, formal-informal, sequential-random, fixed-variable, serial-disjunctive, investiture-divestiture) in three types of programs: generic, RN-track, and second-step. In second-step…

How can teacher educators initiate and sustain a culture of inquiry among participants in a graduate program? This was the core issue in the design of a new Masters degree program that emphasized teacher leadership. Now in their fifth year of this program, the authors decided that it was time to publicly document how they taught and studied the…