Business communication evolves and adapts to suit the times, and today's workplace documents are increasingly multimodal. Therefore, business and professional communication specialists need to adapt to a new media workplace ecology--one that requires proficiencies with technologies such as video production, digital animation, and sound. Business…

FOUR EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED TO STUDY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DIFFERENT METHODS FOR TEACHING MUSIC. VARIOUS MUSIC STIMULUS MATERIALS WERE COMBINED, AND INSTRUCTION WAS OFFERED IN RHYTHM, INTERVALS, TONE GROUPS, AND MELODIES. THESE WERE PRESENTED ON MAGNETIC TAPE TO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN A UNIFORM AND CONSISTENT MANNER. ANALYSIS WAS MADE OF A…

A member of the original faculty of the experimental Ohio State University Laboratory High School reflects at a fiftieth reunion of the first graduating class. Students were used as guinea pigs to determine the effects of providing teenagers with liberating, interesting, and customized education from university faculty. (SM)

A teacher remembers the Ohio State University Laboratory High School in the 1930s. Teachers were university faculty with at least a master's degree. Programs were experimental and interesting. Students and teachers were close. Students, realizing their unique schooling, published a book concerning their experiences, calling themselves the Guinea…

This paper describes the results of several teaching experiments in the teaching Studio of The University of Dayton's Learning-Teaching Center. The Studio is a state-of-the-art classroom with a flexible seating arrangements and movable whiteboards and corkboards for small group discussions. The Studio has a communications system with a TV/VCR…