Describes Jackson Community College's drop-in instructional development center, which houses modules developed jointly by library-based instructional developers and instructors on such topics as college policies and procedures, instructional planning and methods, measuring achievement, and retention and transfer of learning. Includes a sample…

This paper provides a view of learner relationship management that looks to examine the potential for learning systems across an organizational value chain by addressing the potential for learning solutions beyond the Human Resources function in an organization. It identifies a return on investment strategy to align the goals of the organization…

Defines multimedia, explores uses of multimedia training, and discusses the effects and challenges of adding multimedia such as graphics, photographs, full motion video, sound effects, or CD-ROMs to existing training methods. Offers planning tips, and suggests software and hardware tools to help set up multimedia training programs. (JMV)

The purpose of this paper is to present the Large Unit District Association virtual high school (LUDA-VHS) project and discuss its design, development, and implementation. A model developed at the Center for the Application of Information Technologies for designing online classes will be presented and discussed. The focus of the paper will be to…

This book sets an agenda and a direction for the immediate future of libraries and fills the gap between what readers might have learned in library school and what is experienced today. Emphasizing tested programs and practices that work, the manual calls for rethinking even the most basic library structures and icons, reinventing an instruction…

This book chapter provides a checklist of various considerations related to the development and evaluation of community-based instruction for children with disabilities. The checklist is designed to serve as an organizational framework for persons wishing to make systematic decisions regarding the establishment of a community-based instructional…

Outcomes of the Junior Secondary Education Improvement Project (JSEIP), implemented in Botswana during 1985-91, are presented in this final report. The project's purpose was to help the Botswana government expand its 7-year basic education program (primary) to 9 years (primary and junior secondary). The first and second sections provide the…

Two problems must be solved before an integrated curriculum, incorporating learning with, from, and about computers can be implemented. The first is the necessity for a design of how the program will function when it has been fully implemented, with all equipment and other associated materials and procedures. The second is a strategy for…

The instructional systems development (ISD) approach for the development and accomplishment of vocational training programs provides a methodology for gathering and analyzing job information, developing instructional materials in a variety of media, conducting instruction, and evaluating and improving the effectiveness of training programs. This…

Part of a series of instructor training modules on related subjects instruction for apprentices, this booklet deals with planning related subjects instruction. The first chapter consists of an outline of the content and scope of the instructor training modules as well as a self-assessment pretest. Covered in the module are identifying specific…

Activities undertaken by the Amity school district to accomplish its six goals to infuse career education materials into the curriculum at the awareness, exploratory, and preparation educational levels are briefly described: to develop and initiate a career guidance program 1-12 for small schools; to develop and initiate Downtown Math and Language…

Information on basic skills improvement programs is provided through a review of research findings concerned with the factors determining quality education. These factors fall into four key areas: (1) the classroom--use of time, classroom climate/control, teacher behaviors, student behavior, organization of instruction; (2)…

Presents American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages guidelines, intended to serve a program development function, for the preservice preparation of foreign language teachers, focusing on the areas of personal, professional, and specialist development; communication skills; acquisition; leadership; child development; curriculum…

This case study identifies key barriers for staff on the path to an e-University and suggests ways to unlock them. The focus of the evidence-based research is an e-University pilot development in virtual learning in progress at the University of Greenwich (England). Documentary evidence for the study included feedback from 12 sub-projects in the…

Interest in educational reform is a side benefit of recent school criticism. Unfortunately, where the cause of educational failure is understood to be teachers, educational reform has become teacher reform, which most often means that greater effort will be placed on controlling teacher behavior. (LC)