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Mansfield, George – Engineering Education, 1979
Presents a design for a workshop modeled after the engineering design process. A step-by-step approach is suggested for each aspect of the design process. (SA)
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Course Organization, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
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Borus, Michael – Comparative Education Review, 1977
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)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Case Studies, Comparative Education, Cost Effectiveness
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Tamburrino, Marijo B.; And Others – Medical Teacher, 1991
The Helping Relationship Inventory was used to see whether objective improvement in medical student (n=109) communication skills occurred in a relatively brief (nine-hour) small-group course in interviewing. The study demonstrated that even brief small-group interviewing courses can effect a positive change in communication skills. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Evaluation Methods, Helping Relationship, Higher Education
Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Centre, Haifa (Israel). – 1996
This Spanish-language report (with an English summary) describes a course on interagency cooperation held at the Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center in Haifa, Israel. The course, with 30 Central and South American participants, discusses the necessity of pooling resources and sharing responsibility among institutions in various…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Health, Child Welfare, Cooperative Planning
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Kahle, Jane B.; And Others – Science Teacher, 1974
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)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Flexible Scheduling, General Science, Individualized Instruction
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Burkman, Ernest – Science Teacher, 1974
Briefly describes the Individualized Science Instructional System (ISIS) originating from Florida State University, with support from the National Science Foundation, with emphasis on the design and development of the minicourses involved in the project. (PEB)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Individualized Instruction, Individualized Programs
Urofsky, Melvin I.; Cox, Nancy – 1988
Students should achieve a higher level of understanding and appreciation of the evolving nature of the U.S. Constitution and its relevance to contemporary societal issues by studying historical documents from the period of time between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. This document begins with a history of that period and of the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Constitutional History, High Schools, Learning Modules
Geldhart, D.; Brown, A. S. – 1987
This summary report outlines the aims of a project that focused on provision of short courses for technical professionals in the chemical and allied process industry and the process plant industry. Continuing education needs of both companies and individuals, as well as corporate policies and attitudes toward continuing education and constraints…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Curriculum Development, Developed Nations, Engineering Education
Vanis, Mary I. – 1987
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…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Chemistry, Community Colleges, Mathematics Instruction
Sugerman, Deborah A. – 1983
Wilderness Adventure, an Elderhostel course sponsored by Unity College in Maine, gives people over 60 the challenge of living and traveling in a remote wilderness environment. Each course consists of four days of canoeing and a day of rappelling in northern Maine. The program attempts to provide older adults with a personal growth experience via…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adventure Education, Camping, Canoeing
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Jackson, Allen L. – Business Education Forum, 1975
The author describes a sequence of units that provides for competency in payroll procedures. The units could be the basis for a four to six week minicourse and are adaptable, so that the student, upon completion, will be able to apply his learning to any payroll procedures system. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Bookkeeping, Business Education, Course Content, Course Organization
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Blizek, William L.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1974
The purpose of this study was to compare philosophy courses taught according to a conventional course structure (CCS) with philosophy courses taught according to a short course structure (SCS). (Author)
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Research, Higher Education, Independent Study
Harris, Howard L. – 1978
Cosumnes River College adopted a Flexible Calendar Program in 1975, reducing the traditional eighteen-week semesters to sixteen weeks and adding a three-week intersession which has been the focal point of change at the college, especially in approaches to learning and teaching. For students, the fifteen, non-instructional days allowed time to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Faculty Development, Institutional Research, Minicourses
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Wilson, John T.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1975
On an experimental basis the University of Colorado School of Medicine offered two concurrent anatomy courses: a traditional course emphasizing total dissection and a shorter one requiring some dissection but relying heavily on peer group interaction and audiovisual technology. Results of the experiment are presented with reasons for continuing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anatomy, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation
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Meyer, Robert E. – Journal of Geological Education, 1974
Discusses two ninth grade ten-week courses which use problem solving as one of the main teaching methods. Anecdotes are used to set up problems to be solved in student investigations. (MLH)
Descriptors: Earth Science, Environmental Education, Instructional Materials, Minicourses
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