In this article, Beata Jones attempts to organize the honors discipline into a comprehensive framework that can guide explorations and shed light on specific attributes of honors entities in the framework of their interrelationships. The framework offers an approach to deal with the inherent fragmentation of the field, which can lead to…

Advanced practitioner skill development has become an important focus in health service delivery as increasingly complex consumer needs, practice environments and national professional registration requirements impact on professional work practices. Increasingly, work-based or workplace learning experiences are being seen as an effective means for…

Areas of our country are headed toward significant social and political unrest if education ignores the demographic trends reshaping our schools. This article describes how one teacher training program in South Carolina examined its cultural context, accreditation standards, and course offerings to restructure its curriculum to address cultural…

Specific consultation problems that arise during the instructional development process in determining the nature of instructional products are considered, and clients' characteristics and projects are assessed along with a model for working with different types of clients. A list of skills needed by instructional developers to determine the…

Designed to provide the academic departments at California's Chabot College with information on state matriculation and academic standards, this handbook provides information on procedures for establishing course prerequisites and corequisites, as well as background information on conducting content reviews, course research, and assessments of…

Examines current trends in educational telematics and presents frameworks, models, and guidelines for the design and evaluation of courses for remote learning delivery. Topics include technology-supported learning; the design of communication systems; student-centered learning; distributed methodologies; technology in curriculum development;…

A systematic procedure for reviewing a basic nursing curriculum, identifying needed changes, and developing and implementing a plan for change is described. Also examined are techniques used to evaluate the plan and to determine the relevance of the revised curriculum to community health needs. After presenting information on primary health care…

This paper provides a commentary on the RAMP guidelines on curriculum development in the teaching of information technology, which were developed as a result of the UNESCO seminar on harmonization held in Paris in October 1984. This report is divided into three parts: (1) basic working assumptions for curriculum planning in the face of information…

The Bibliographic Instruction Committee of the Wichita State (Kansas) University Libraries recommended changes to improve the current bibliographic instruction program for lower division undergraduates. The shortcomings of the current program, one class period in a required English course, were analyzed; and suggestions were made to improve the…