The adult degree program (ADP) at Goddard College in Vermont is a nontraditional program for students over 26 who once started but never completed work toward their BA degree. Goddard offers parttime study, with no grades, required courses, texts, lecture halls, or residency requirements. (Author/PG)

An overview of the most important materials on nontraditional study from the past six years. (Editor)

Some predictions about credentialism, types and motives of students, technology, and the learner as producer in nontraditional education. (Editor/PG)

After a full year of operation, many questions have been asked about Empire State College (ESC) concerning the type of students who seek such an institution and how these students handle the major responsibility of planning and carrying out their studies. A group of 10 graduates were selected from the 30 graduated in fall 1972 for lengthy…

This proposal outlines an alternative plan for undergraduate work that can lead to a college degree. The project, called the University Without Walls, is being implemented in a total of 16 institutions in which groups of 75 to 100 students are participants. The project abandons almost all traditional aspects of college education, in that it serves…

Assesses the possible effects of lossening up fixed time requirements and rigid patterns of instruction on the economic efficiency and instructional quality of higher education. (Editor/PG)

Six selected nontraditional approaches to curriculum at the University of Minnesota, each leading to a baccalaureate degree, are described. The programs are designed to provide flexibility to students enrolled in the university or to extend a university education to people not otherwise served. Each involves individual student selection of work to…

New forms of postsecondary education such as television colleges, contract learning programs, universities without walls, external degree programs, and education brokers have emerged to complement traditional adult and vocational education programs. New patterns and programs contribute to the open learning movement in higher education and offer…