This document contains the proceedings of The Adult Higher Education Alliance 35th Annual Conference. The theme of the conference was Adult and Higher Education in the Contemporary World: Its Role In Cultural Literacy. The conference was held on March 10-11, 2015. The event was hosted by and held at the College of Education and Human Performance,…

The 6th Annual Conference of the National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL) and the 4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference was held at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, on June 27-29, 2012. The NAIRTL is a collaborative initiative between University College Cork, Cork Institute of Technology, National…

The present report follows an ENQA (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) Workshop on Quality Assurance and Postgraduate Education, hosted by the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS) in Brasov, Romania on 12-13 March 2009. The workshop was an excellent opportunity for ENQA members to exchange…

Changes in the delivery of health care services and their implications for nursing practice and nursing education are discussed in nine papers from the 1986 annual meeting of the Southern Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing. Titles and authors are as follows: "Changes in Health Care and Challenges for Nursing Education" (Jacquelyn S.…

Summarizes issues affecting the field of educational technology which were addressed at the 1989 meeting of the Professors of Instructional Design and Technology (PIDT). Topics discussed include redefining the field of instructional design and technology (IDT); improving graduate studies in IDT; and conducting research in IDT. (16 references) (LRW)

This volume contains papers submitted to the 11th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 14-17 May 2013, and papers submitted to the 1st International Distance Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre "Scientific Cooperation,"…

This volume includes materials that clearly indicate the state of the development of the field of higher education. The members of the Association of Professors of Higher Education gathered in their third formal national conference to read and discuss the materials included here. The ideas and information presented in this edited, and relatively…

This volume presents 64 abstracts of keynote and parallel paper presentations of the Irish National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning's (NAIRTL) conference on the theme of flexible learning. The Flexible Learning conference was a joint initiative by NAIRTL and the Learning Innovation Network. The keynote presentations can…

Proceedings from a symposium that shared information on the University of Utah's field-oriented doctoral educational administration program are presented in this paper. The sequential preparation program is based on the following multiple perspectives: a theory-practice relationship; field assignments conducted at multiple organizational levels;…

As part of its first-year activities, the Atlanta University Department of Chemistry, which started as Doctor of Arts degree program in September 1975, sponsored a conference on April 23-24, 1976 to which were invited 20 two- and four-year college faculty and administrators. The main objectives were to discuss the need and credibility of the…

This publication reports on a conference convened in November 1987 (with a follow-up for unfinished business in July, 1988) to analyze and propose solutions to the problem of ethnic minority underrepresentation in doctoral programs, with specific emphasis on the role of faculty in reversing this trend. Prefatory material includes a conference…

Education, training, and employment are addressed in 33 papers from a 1984 conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. Papers are grouped in the main categories of professional education and the influence of industry, course development for vocationalism, teachers and teaching, learners and learning, higher…

This document contains eight papers presented at a conference held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the graduate school of adult education at Ohio State University. After a foreword by David Boggs, the following papers are included: "Reflections on the Commission of Professors of Adult Education" (Burton Kreitlow);…

The proceedings of a 1979 Missouri symposium on doctoral programs in special education includes the texts of major addresses and position papers as well as summaries of conclusions of small working groups. The keynote speech by R. Erdman was entitled "Higher Education in the 1980's: Implications for Doctoral Programming." The speech deals with…

This proceedings presents 43 papers delivered at the 2001 annual meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC). Papers in the proceedings include the following: "Act IV: On Being Less Invisible" (Bill Karis); "Building a Community of Professional Communicators by Mapping Needs and Assets"…