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Murphy, Paud – 1981
This report describes the activities of the first 5 years of the Lesotho Distance Teaching Center, which uses distance teaching methods to bring education to more people in Lesotho. Also described are the Center's internal organization, its relationship to other organizations in Lesotho, its costs, and some evaluation findings. Background…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correspondence Schools, Costs, Developing Nations
Download full textKempfer, Homer; Wood, William R. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1952
Throughout the United States today schools and community colleges are putting greater emphasis than ever before upon adult education. Obvious reasons for this include the manpower demands of national defense, the spreading desire for educational upgrading, and the impact of technological change upon the daily lives of millions of workers. For each…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Community Colleges, Best Practices, Public Education
Local Government Research Corp., State College, PA. – 1979
Eight feasibility studies, conducted since 1973, investigated the need for non-traditional approaches to two-year postsecondary education programs in areas of Pennsylvania not served by locally sponsored community colleges. The proposed institutions were modeled on a concept of "colleges without walls." This concept involves (1) using…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Costs
Henderson, Allan J. – 2003
This book answers more than 70 key questions that business managers and trainers ask about using e-learning in their company as a business tool. Chapters 1 and 3-11 are comprised of questions and answers related to these topics: what e-learning is all about; what e-learning costs; applying e-learning to the business; what today's e-learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business, Case Studies, Cognitive Style
Grabowski, Stanley M., Ed. – 1973
This bibliography contains citations for dissertations pertaining to the education or training of adults. The dissertations include those completed under the guidance of professors in member institutions of the Commission of Professors of Adult Education, those under the guidance of professors from other institutions not associated with the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administrator Education, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies
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Direct linkDuncan, Steve – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
One of the most significant events that heralded the Department of Defense's commitment to distance education was the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, which held its kickoff meeting in Washington, DC in 1997. This meeting provided the army and other military services the endorsement that had been lacking relative to implementing…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Costs, Instructional Development, Educational Innovation
