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Download full textNathan W. Conner; Matt Stockton; Daran Rudnick; Charles Burr; Tessa Burford – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2023
Cooperative Extension strives to provide agricultural producers with non-formal educational opportunities designed to positively impact agriculture (NIFA, 2021). Therefore, a team of Extension professionals at the University of Nebraska -- Lincoln developed and facilitate an ongoing professional development program designed to enhance the…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills
Peer reviewedTaylor, Raymond G. – Education, 1979
Arguing that problems associated with the inter-relationships between money spent and educational effectiveness are not in surmountable, this paper addresses: setting goals and identifying measures of effectiveness; determining program effectiveness in relation to the goals of education; and determining cost effectiveness. Pennsylvania Department…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Objectives, Efficiency, Guidelines
Direct linkDede, Chris, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2006
In "Online Professional Development for Teachers," the authors look closely at exemplary online professional development programs, compare them carefully with one another, and draw helpful conclusions about them--both for those who develop online programs and for teachers and administrators in search of professional development programs…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Efficiency
Peer reviewedKlassen, Frank, Jr. – Educational Record, 1994
New information technology is viewed as analogous to a railway network that serves many, in diverse areas, and leads users to new frontiers. It is suggested that higher education can contribute to this system by developing useful new applications, providing guidelines for appropriate "passenger" behavior, and enhancing quality. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Efficiency, Higher Education, Information Networks
Fitzgerald, Brian K. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1991
The process of reauthorization of college student financial aid legislation may be instrumental in reducing the burden and complexity of the financial aid application and need analysis process through simplification. Exempting some students, permitting more to use simplified need analysis, and streamlining reapplication are steps in the right…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Educational Change, Efficiency, Federal Legislation
Peer reviewedSouth African Journal of Higher Education, 1998
An extract from a report on Sub-Saharan African university development by the Association of African Universities and the World Bank discusses current issues and needs in the areas of the role of the university, revitalization, access, financing, educational quality and relevance, resource management, keeping up with technological change, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Role, College Role, Educational Finance
Denman, Paula N. – 1996
This evaluative report by the General Accounting Office (GAO) summarizes Department of Education actions made through April 1996 in response to 205 recommendations to improve the management of federal student financial aid programs. The report concludes that the Department had completed actions or had actions in progress or planned for 186 of the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Costs, Debt (Financial), Efficiency
Newman, Sandra J.; Schnare, Ann B. – 1987
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)--through the explicit and implicit shelter allowance provided under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and General Assistance--spends at least $10 billion a year on housing assistance, or about as much as the Department of Housing and…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Differences, Efficiency, Federal Aid
Commonwealth of Learning, 2004
Both of these "Surveys of policy and practice" were conducted on behalf of COL by the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) as part of COL's partnership agreement with the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) Working Group on Distance Education and Open Learning. The first report identifies…
Descriptors: Open Education, Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Educational Quality
