ERIC Number: ED278786
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1987-Feb
Pages: 226
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Lifelong Learning Research Conference Proceedings (8th, College Park, Maryland, February 19-20, 1987).
Rivera, William M., Comp.; Walker, Sharon M., Comp.
Among the 46 papers in this proceedings are the following 36 selected titles: "The Intergenerational Exercise/Movement Program" (Ansello); "Using Computers for Adult Literacy Instruction" (Askov et al.); "Measuring Adults' Attitudes toward Computers" (Delcourt, Lewis); "Issues in Computers and Adult Learning" (Gerver); "Preassessment of Adult Student Interest in Relation to Success in Introductory Computer Courses" (Korhonen, McKenzie); "Self-Initiated Learning Projects of Prison Inmates of the District of Columbia Department of Corrections" (Brown); "Role of the Adult Educator in the Prisons" (Collins); "Instructional Television Programs for Graduate Professionals" (Baldwin); "Northern Ontario Distance Education Access Network" (Croft); "Development of Distance Education in the United States" (Granger); "Distance Education: Practitioners' Pleas for Research" (Mugridge); "Graduate Education Desires, Detractors, and Determinants for Navy Aviation Officers" (J.D. Smith); "Contact in Telecourses: The Trade-Offs" (Wiesner); "International Programming in the Cooperative Extension System" (Lambur et al.); "Functional Skills--Experiential Learning Outcomes of the Volunteer 4-H Leader" (Howe); "Perceptions of the Effectiveness of 4-H Volunteer Key Leaders as Held by Key Leaders and County 4-H Agents in Ohio" (Richey, K.L. Smith); "Re:Fit: Career Change Options for Well Defined Dislocated Worker Populations" (Heimlich, Van Tilburg); "Defining Human Resource Development" (D. Smith); "Representation Technologies in the Future of Lifelong Learning" (Jackendoff); "Missing Pieces in the Evaluation of Extension Training Programs in Developing Countries" (Jones); "UNICEF: A Children's Program with High Adult Education Impact" (Marsick); "India's Agricultural Extension Development: The Move toward Top-Level Management Training" (Rivera); "Public and Private Sector Extension in Agricultural Development" (Crowder); "A Factor Analytic Study of an Adult Classroom Environment Scale" (Aagaard, Langenbach); "The Scope and Evolution of Hermeneutics and Its Challenge to Lifelong Learning Professionals" (Boucouvalas); "Participatory Modes for Empowering the Disadvantaged" (Cassara); "The Psychological Well-Being and Sources of Stress in Returning Students" (Copland, Yu); "Context and Learning" (Ingham); "Three Forms of Learning in Social Context" (Jarvis); "Informal Adult Experiential Learning--Reality in Search of a Theory and a Practice" (Rossing, Russell); "A Comparison of the Value Orientations and Locus of Control of Adult Learners in Schools of Business and Education" (Londoner et al.); "Adult Experiential Learning: A Grasping and Transforming Process" (Sheckley); "Qualitative Evaluation Research: Issues and Dilemmas" (Fingeret); "Typology of Law-Literate Adults Based on Deterrents to Participation in Adult Basic Education" (Hayes); "Hispanic Participation in Adult Education" (Wallace et al.); "Adult Education Policy: The Missing Link" (Oaklief); "Quality Control in Non-Traditional Education" (Shaw, Fox); "The Uses of Innovative Methodology in Adult Education Research" (Beder et al.); and "Marketing to Adult Learners: Using Focus Group Research to Develop a Marketing Plan" (Rosenbloom, Thole). (KC)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Aging (Individuals), Computer Oriented Programs, Correctional Education, Distance Education, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Extension Education, Human Resources, International Education, Learning Theories, Lifelong Learning, Literacy Education, Microcomputers, Participant Characteristics, Postsecondary Education, Professional Continuing Education, Staff Development, Student Motivation
Publication Type: Collected Works - Proceedings; Reports - Research; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Maryland Univ., College Park. Univ. Coll.; Maryland Univ., College Park. Dept. of Agriculture and Extension Education.
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