Sales, service, and production activity training programs might benefit from utilizing the matrixed reference piece, an inexpensive information and reference organizer well adapted to comparative procedural concepts. (Author/LH)

This article features several educators whose classroom, school, and district-wide projects offered this year's most inventive and successful examples of bringing technology-based learning to K-12 students. A middle school teacher used grant money to fund a weekly student news broadcast. A technology director created video booths to reveal to…

The author describes the actual steps used by a community college to determine the feasibility of offering a course or curriculum." (Editor/AK)

Additional insight into the High School Geography Project (HSGP) is provided by this retrospective view of the critical decisions which influenced its nature and scope. A commitment was made to materials at the expense of teacher education and other changes in the educational system. Successive choices focused on a complete but frugal package of…

Project Canada West provides classroom teachers with the opportunity to initiate and develop curricula. (MB)

Results-based management (RBM) is an approach to programme planning and management that integrates strategy, people, resources, processes and measurements to improve decision-making, transparency and accountability. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) began the adoption of a RBM model with its 2003-2006 Three-Year Plan. This led to a significantly…

A computer-aided authoring technique for generating symbol learning materials is described in which a human author enters information about a set of symbols into a data base and a computer routine merges the contents of the data base with generic formats and automatically organizes and prints a complete learning package. Three key issues discussed…

Described are an adult education class for visually handicapped prison inmates and a program in which volunteer inmates transcribed books and educational materials for the visually handicapped. (GW)

The University of Sydney is a large, research-intensive, campus-based Australian University. Since 2004 a strategic initiative of project-based eLearning support has been creating teams of non-academic and academic staff, who have worked together to develop online resources to meet identified needs. The University's aims in continuing to provide…

The proceedings of the sixth regional workshop consist of a description of the project and the workshop; a description of the field survey, preparation, and field testing of materials by the group; five papers presented at the workshop; and notes on planned follow-up activities in the participating countries. The workshop culminated a project on…

The document contains the final report on the Gifted Science Project in Montgomery County, Maryland, a program to provide resources for gifted students in grades 3-8 who are motivated in science. The primary product is a microfiche file (the Project Resource File) listing people, places, and published materials that can be used by individual…

The report describes a project in which high-motivation language arts and math instruction was provided to decrease absenteeism, school failure and dropout rates for secondary handicapped students. It is explained that instruction was correlated with "visible kit" materials, including the Visible V8 Engine Kit, and that a document was prepared…