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Somers, Norman – Alternative Higher Education: The Journal of Nontraditional Studies, 1979
Although undergraduates often earn academic credit for prior learning, graduate students are rarely afforded that opportunity, with Central Michigan University and the University of Northern Colorado as exceptions. Both the American Council on Education and the Council for the Advancement of Experiential Learning support experiential learning in…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Credits, Experiential Learning, External Degree Programs
Alliance, an Association for Alternative Degree Programs. – 1987
Proceedings of an international conference on adult and external degree programs are presented. Selected papers are drawn from the areas of distance learning, support services, intra-institutional, curriculum, and teaching. They include: "Uses of Distance Education for Graduate Professional Degrees" (Ruth J. Person and Raymond Vondran); "Library…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, College Curriculum
West, Peter C. – 1980
In 1979 the Rockford Regional Academic Center formed a task force to examine the feasibility of providing upper division and graduate level instruction in the Rockford, Illinois area by "remote delivery." The objective was to gather information about: (1) what remote delivery instructional systems are available; (2) what the physical…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Access to Education, Adult Students, Continuing Education
American Council on Education, Washington, DC. – 1988
A comprehensive, interactive conference was designed to help improve the quality of external degree programs and adult education. Sixteen papers are presented as follows: (1) "Designing Self-Instructional Print Material for the Adult Learner" (Diane J. Davis); (2) "Degrees by Alternative Delivery for U.S. Soldiers and Sailors"…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Adult Students, Armed Forces
Sharp, Laure M.; Sosdian, Carol P. – 1978
A two-phase study of external degree holders was carried out in 1976-1977 by the Bureau of Social Science Research in cooperation with the American Council on Education and under the sponsorship of the National Institute of Education. Over 3,000 men and women who had received an Associate or Bachelor's degree since the commencement of these…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees
Open Univ., Walton, Bletchley, Bucks (England). – 1977
This introduction to the Open University contains an historical overview; a description of undergraduate, postgraduate, and associate-level courses of study; and information on course components, including printed material, television and radio, tuition and counseling, assignments and assessments, summer school, and course teams. Data and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Assignments, College Administration, College Applicants
Download full textMizell, Al P.; And Others – 1993
Nova University (Florida), offers off-campus undergraduate and graduate degree programs in education, business and public administration, psychology, and computer sciences. This paper describes one of these offerings, the Application of Technology to Education and Training (APTEC) specialization in the Ed.D. program in Child and Youth Studies…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Audiotape Recordings, Business
