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McLinden, Mike; McCall, Steve; Hinton, Danielle; Weston, Annette – Distance Education, 2006
This article reports on work undertaken within Phase 2 of a pilot study concerned with the design, development, and evaluation of online resources. Drawing on recent developments in the application of technology within open and distance education, these resources were structured around the principles of problem-based learning (PBL) for use with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Visual Impairments, Distance Education, Problem Based Learning
Pierce, Ronald K. – 1993
This book, written by a father of school-aged children, challenges the idea that school reform must be based on raising test scores. Rather, it asserts that school reform should start by deciding what kind of students it wants to produce and then designing schools that will allow students to develop accordingly. The book advocates a child-centered…
Descriptors: Child Development, Educational Innovation, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Parer, Michael S., Ed. – 1993
This collection of 13 articles contains the reflections of experienced course developers on a particular course that illustrates the process of constructing flagship distance education programs. "Educational Developers in Action--A Series of Tales from the Mud" (Michael Parer) is an introduction that discusses the technology of distance…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Distance Education
Budapest Training Technology Centre (Hungary). – 1993
The Budapest Training Technology Centre (BTTC) grew out of a 1990 agreement calling for Great Britain to help Hungary develop and implement open and flexible training methods and technology-based training to support the labor force development and vocational training needs resulting from Hungary's transition to a market economy. The BTTC would be…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Educational Cooperation, Educational Technology, Facility Planning
van den Berg, Ellen – 1992
A study examined the relationship between the motives and needs of 658 adult students enrolled in a Dutch adult high school program and the curricular and instructional design of an educational reform--an open learning program. The population was all 4,442 adult learners in 3 schools who started an open learning experiment. When the students…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Style
Demiray, Ugur – 1988
A survey of the 9,949 senior students in the business administration and economics programs of the Open Education Faculty (distance education) was conducted during the 1985-86 school year to obtain information on their social and socioeconomic characteristics. Usable responses were received from 8,382 students. The questionnaire sought information…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Distance Education, Educational Research, Financial Support
Tay, A. K. B. – 1989
Based on a meeting of experts convened in Lome, Togo in June, 1989, this digest aims to demonstrate what is understood to be the broad potential of the child-to-child approach, which many people think of as being applicable only to health education. The digest contains three main sections. Section A highlights the original cultural references of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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Journal of Biological Education, 1975
Describes a college curriculum in which formal examinations are abolished (students are assessed by the work presented in assignments) and certificates at the Bachelor Degree level do not differentiate between pass and honours students. (LS)
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), College Students, Curriculum, Curriculum Development
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Norwood, Don J.; Norwood, Elizabeth R. – Journal of Educational Research, 1975
This investigation determined quantitatively the effects of open and traditional classroom techniques on teacher and student interaction and social environment. (RC)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Grade 3
Collins, J. H., Ed.; And Others – 1988
The second of two volumes in these proceedings contains the text (or, in a very few cases, an abstract) of 87 papers on the use of technology at all levels of education, including elementary, secondary, and higher education. These papers were presented in 29 topic sessions and one plenary session. Themes of the sessions include: (1) educational…
Descriptors: Administration, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education
Wallace, John – 1990
This document reports an evaluation of an open access program for unemployed adults at England's Hinckley College of Further Education. The program aimed to help clients identify long-term and short-term goals and emphasized participative management, student-centered learning, guidance, and counseling. The findings emphasize (1) the importance of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Career Guidance, Counseling
Wood, Derek E. – 1988
This paper examines the significant features of open learning and considers its potential to assist in the promotion of national social and economic goals in New Zealand. It deals primarily with employment-related education and suggests that the three principal beneficiaries--the state, employers, and students--should bear the costs. The paper…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Continuing Education, Cost Effectiveness, Developed Nations
Nicholson, Simon – Educational and Psychological Interactions, 1982
"Gruppo Futuro" (Future Group), a novel educational project linking futures studies to multimedia and giving children control of the content of their instruction by focusing on their views of the future, was implemented in a Swedish fourth-grade class. Participating in the project were 29 children in Tullingebergsskolan, their teacher,…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
Dowaliby, Fred J.; And Others – 1981
The study, involving 53 students from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, investigated the relevance of certain aptitude-by-treatment interaction findings with normally hearing students to the instruction of hearing impaired students. Instructional variables investigated were classroom structure and student participation. Student…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Style, Conventional Instruction
Woodley, Alan; McIntosh, Naomi E. – 1976
An increasing number of student places is only one measure of openness in a university. The institution must continue to investigate which groups of people are prevented from even applying, and why this is so. Although the number of applicants for 1976 was high, it included a large percentage of previous applicants, while the number of new…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attitudes, College Applicants, College Students
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