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Evolution and Revolution of Adult Learning: Exposition of Open and Distance Learning in Nigeria
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Umezulike, Nneka A. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2015
The educational system has witnessed a number of laudable programs since inception in both formal and non-formal systems of education programs that were set up to empower adult educational skills, knowledge, decision-making processes.Correspondence education transformed into distance education which--with the advent of information and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Distance Education, College Programs
The Design and Evolution of the Akamai Workforce Initiative: An External Review
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St. John, Mark; Castori, Pam – Inverness Research, 2014
The Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI) is a program that seeks to develop a skilled local STEM workforce to meet the needs of Hawai'i's growing high-tech industry. Launched as an internship program in 2002, AWI is the result of a long-term collaboration among the University of California Santa Cruz's Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Descriptions, Educational Development, Labor Force Development
C. Wright Mills's Friendly Critique of Service Learning and an Innovative Response: Cross-Institutional Collaborations for Community-Based Research
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Marullo, Sam; Moayedi, Roxanna; Cooke, Deanna – Teaching Sociology, 2009
C. Wright Mills would be a friendly critic of service learning, acknowledging its benefits for providing students with experiential learning opportunities to connect personal troubles with social issues. Yet he would be critical of service-learning practices that perpetuate institutional power inequalities and that do not advance the social change…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Research Projects, Service Learning, Sociology
College and University Partnership Program 1979 Project Report.
College and Univ. Partnership Program, Inc., Memphis, TN. – 1979
During 1978-79 the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission SPON-BBB17857 provided grant support to the College and University Partnership Program (CUPP) for research and program development to promote the linking of 200 higher education institutions in Japan and the United States for undergraduate student exchange activities. In that year program…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Athletics, Conferences, Cultural Exchange
The Baccalaureate Degree Program at INTER/MET.
Jones, Kelsey A. – 1975
The baccalaureate degree program at INTER/MET and cooperative arrangements are considered in three articles. In "The Baccalaureate Degree Program at INTER/MET: An Evaluation," the process by which nondegree candidates at INTER/MET achieve the bachelor's degree through utilization of the services of the University Without Walls Program at…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Clergy, College Programs, Degree Requirements
Priorities, Quality, and Productivity of Illinois Higher Education: Summary and Assessment for 1993-94 and Recommendations for 1994-95.
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Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1994
This report provides a summary and assessment of the results of the 1993-94 Priorities, Quality, and Productivity (PQP) initiative undertaken by the Illinois State Board of Higher Education and makes recommendations for consideration by the board to set directions for 1994-95. The first section describes state-level PQP activities in 1993-94. The…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Athletics, College Instruction, Colleges