Provides details of a mini-course, developed in cooperation with the school's study skills center, that is the essential feature of a program designed to help students in the business communication curriculum improve their writing skills. (RL)

A junior high school social studies program offers the options of self-contained classroom, limited choice, and independent study. (KM)

Project Bank was initiated at Triton College (Illinois) to increase student awareness of the merits of word processing as it affects their class work and related assignments; to make faculty aware of advances in word processing programs; and to increase the utilization of the college's computer laboratory. All fall 1985 incoming freshmen were…

Descirbes a secondary science program designed to increase enrollment by offering semester courses. Thirty courses, in the biological and physical sciences, are offered for one semester and one-half credit. Earth science enrollment has increased significantly in the upper grade classes. Student evaluations are mostly favorable. (MA)

In 2002 the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney began a major initiative to improve the participation of Indigenous Australians in the Information Technology (IT) sector. This followed an initial study which showed that very few Indigenous students undertook studies in IT at university and therefore few found…

This directory provides information on summer programs abroad from 1 week to several months in length and short courses of varying lengths in the fall, winter, or spring. Approximately 60 percent of the programs are sponsored by U.S. accredited colleges and universities; the others are offered by foreign universities, language schools, and other…

The concept of modular educational programming provides a pragmatic means of translating employee developmental needs into educational objectives. (Authors)

Four short reports are presented. The first is about the pressures students experience in an accelerated college program. The second is about a program to improve the self-concept of disadvantaged youth. The third describes preparing a school calendar, and the fourth discusses the idea of offering mini-courses during study hall. (SE)

The establishment of a minicourse of four three-hour sessions devoted to the examination and debate of selected ethical issues at Queen's University is described. Students chose topics for discussion and organized debates between faculty and community members. (Author/MLW)

Describes the development of activity centered science minicourses in an isolated California high school, and lists the characteristics considered essential for a good minicourse curriculum. Advocates a program in which specialist teachers travel between small rural schools with limited resources, presenting well developed and exciting…

Career education at Roosevelt School District, Phoenix, Arizona, prepares students for the world of work with a coordinated and innovative program. (MS)

Presents data from a survey of the course offerings of 265 midwestern high schools that tend to support the belief that language arts minicourse programs still exist in spite of a trend toward a more traditional curriculum. Listed first in the data is the finding that every high school offered at least one minicourse in composition. (AEA)

Presents a case study of youth training in a developing country--Israel--and seeks to measure the economic returns associated with the costs incurred for different types of vocational training. (Author/RK)

Describes a program for teaching science, in inner city Chicago, organized around modules or minicourses geared to nonacademic students. The individualized instruction of this alternative approach helped overcome student absenteeism as well as achievement level differences. (BR)

Rio Salado Community College's (RSCC's) Adult Basic Education (ABE) program piloted a project utilizing two minicourses on videodisc, which incorporated sound instructional design and video technology. The videodisc courses, "Core Concepts in Mathematics" and "Understanding Chemistry and Energy," were designed to accommodate students who needed…