At the 71st Annual International Convention of the Association for Business Communication (ABC), held in San Antonio, Texas, October 26-28, 2006, the author (editor of "Business Communication Quarterly" from 1997 to 2005) was honored as the 2005 recipient of ABC's highest award for teaching: the Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teacher Award. This article…

Web3D open standards allow the delivery of interactive 3D virtual learning environments through the Internet, reaching potentially large numbers of learners worldwide, at any time. This paper introduces the educational use of virtual reality based on Web3D technologies. After briefly presenting the main Web3D technologies, we summarize the…

This brochure is intended to serve the following three purposes: (1) To provide Environmental Education Division (EED) managers and staff with a common understanding of EED's mission and goals, the underlying values held as fundamental to EED activities, and specific priorities necessary for making day-to-day operating decisions; (2) To provide a…

A description of PPBS, a program for establishing accountability by organizing processes into five categories: 1) establishment of overall objectives; 2) establishment of programs to support these objectives; 3) consideration of future implications; 4) development of alternative means of meeting objectives; and 5) development of criteria for…

A critique of the status quo in higher education describes the results of a lack of stated purposes for a liberal education. Some of those purposes should be acquiring information and knowledge, acquiring skills and habits of thought; developing qualities of mind, judgement, and values; and acquiring understanding and competence in the arts. (JH)

Liberal education must be revitalized because it remains the best means yet found by which scholars, artists, and teachers can contribute to the solution of the critical conditions that threaten to engulf the human race. (Author)

THE EDUCATIONAL POLICIES COMMISSION REPORTED IN ITS POSITION PAPER THAT A MAJOR OBJECTIVE OF OUR SCHOOLS SHOULD BE TO DEVELOP THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE IN STUDENTS. SUCH A SPIRIT OF RATIONAL INQUIRY SHOULD INCLUDE SUCH VALUES AS (1) A DESIRE TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND, (2) QUESTIONING OF ALL THINGS, (3) SEARCH FOR DATA AND THEIR MEANING, (4) DEMAND FOR…

This paper provides a general description of how Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is moving towards competency-based instruction. A planning retreat was held and all instructional programs offered by the University were assessed with regard to the overall purposes of the institution and the prospect of developing a competency-based…

Career education is for all people of all ages and has, as its common denominator, interaction among them. The concept underlying career education goes beyond academic and vocational activities to encompass the self actualization of each individual. Career education could be the vehicle by which a total view of the self worth of the individual is…