Over the past year, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have received a great deal of attention from the academic community and the media. The EUA Secretariat has followed the development of the MOOCs since the beginning of 2012, surveying discussion forums and publications, but also assessing the websites of MOOC providers and participating in…

A project to develop a faculty exchange model for Southeast Florida Educational Consortium (SFEC) institutions is described, and project materials are provided. The following project activities are described: collecting information about existing faculty exchange arrangements; identifying benefits and concerns associated with these arrangements;…

Includes "Keys to Successful Tech Prep Programs" (Cahill); "Tech Prep Systems for the Twenty-First Century--The Power of Process" (Key, Key); and "Indiana Tech Prep Pilot" (Hoke, Suba). (JOW)

This report provides some basic guidelines for planning and establishing a consortium. Systems analysis was used to study 5 consortia, determine their objectives, identify applicable system variables, and ascertain the contribution each variable must make to achieve organizational objectives. The consortia were the Central States College…

A federally funded consortium project, the American Foundation for the Blind's Deaf-Blind Project, has produced "Hand in Hand" products for students who are deaf-blind. Reasons for using a consortium model, consortium structure, roles, distinguishing features, and advantages/disadvantages are discussed. (DB)

Individuals, agencies, and institutions involved in the education and employment of teachers conceptually defined parity relevant to the decision-making process in planning, conducting, and evaluating teacher education programs and translated the conceptual definition into an instrument for describing parity in consortium-centered teacher…

This publication consists of a number of papers that discuss the development, implementation, and evaluation of efforts to integrate general and special education administration. The publication deals primarily with the work of the General-Special Education Administration Consortium (GSEAC), a long-term cooperative effort involving 25 higher…

Cooperative efforts of a research facility, university training programs and local public schools' speech services to hearing children that resulted in an experimental consortium of preservice and inservice education are described. A model for consortium development is discussed, as is the impact on personnel preparation and professional…

The Long Range Planning/Comprehensive Management Systems (LRP/CMS) program is an outgrowth of a consortium of 42 developing higher education institutions. The monograph is the result of a decade of experimentation and experience of the members of this group. As such, it is designed to present a detailed long range planning model which incorporates…

Luzerne County Community College (Pennsylvania) received funds to articulate its program with three vocational/technical high schools in its service area. The proposal involved establishing a consortium intended to develop greater cooperation and more effective career education planning, to eliminate duplication, and to provide greater use of…

Recognizing that unhealthy children cannot learn and that an uneducated child will become a drain on society, this report describes the efforts of the National Health and Education Consortium (NHEC) to promote collaboration among the health and education professions to improve the health of children. The report describes the creation and operation…

Leadership training and professional development programs offered by college and university consortia, systems, and professional groups illustrate a variety of program models. All use shared resources and pooled opportunities of institutions of similar types, missions, and interests, keeping costs down and enhancing opportunities for professional…

The authors discuss the joining of 12 Virginia community colleges from the Appalachian region of southwestern Virginia with Radford University to form the Regional Technology Education Consortium (RTEC), a three-year project funded by the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education program and designed to develop articulation…

This guide offers a practical, step-by-step approach to developing an industry-based office education program. It equips business educators with the tools, strategies, and ideas necessary to develop a multiyear plan for implementing the program. Section I provides the rationale for cooperation between industry and education and offers ideas for…

This report describes a project designed to (1) develop models for use of vocational education data available from the Oregon Management Information System (MIS) to implement decision making at key points in program planning and curriculum development, and (2) design, develop, and test a system to improve the competencies of state and local…