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BADGER, C. R. – 1966
THIS ARTICLE SUPPORTS THE 1966 RECOMMENDATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION IN PROPOSING THAT FEDERAL FUNDS SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN TO UNIVERSITIES FOR ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS NOT SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO THE WORK OF THE UNIVERSITY, OR NOT CONDUCTED AT THE PROPER ACADEMIC LEVEL. UNIVERSITIES ARE URGED INSTEAD TO ENGAGE IN (1) CRITICAL…
Descriptors: Administration, Adult Educators, Agency Cooperation, Educational Needs
KELMAN, ALFRED R. – 1962
THE BROAD STRUCTURE OF STUDIES IN THE USE OF EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOR MEETING THE GROWING NEEDS OF JUNIOR COLLEGE PROGRAMS IN THE STATE OF OREGON WAS DESCRIBED. THE TELEVISION COURSE OUTLINE WAS DESCRIBED AND REASONS GIVEN FOR STUDENT ENROLLMENT IN THE COLLEGE OF THE AIR PROGRAM. AN INDEPENDENT PROGRAM OF HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH INSTRUCTIONAL…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Television, Evening Programs, Extension Education
Haldeman, James E. – 1979
A 5-phase plan was initiated in New York's Schuyler County to develop a Community Resources Development (CRD) program which would bring about communication, educate citizens, and build leadership. This was a joint effort involving county citizens and organizations, a county extension agent, a regional CRD specialist, the resources at both the land…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Citizen Participation, Communications, Community Development
Hruska, Thomas J. – 1981
This paper relates the conflicting impressions an English teacher who teaches extension courses at a maximum security prison has experienced while teaching literature and composition in such an environment. Anecdotes about individual prisoners and their circumstances reveal both the similarities and the extremely harsh differences between their…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Correctional Education, English Instruction, Extension Education
Garrett, Denny; Wagner, Graham – 1979
This conference paper reports a search for information about research on continuing education in New Zealand carried out by people working in or with organizations and agencies usually classified as educational or for research related to those agencies. A section on information sources used is followed by one discussing trends in research. Four…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Educational Research
Williams, Robert D. – 1979
A study was conducted to determine if there was a significant mean difference in achievement, as measured by the Advanced Test of the Graduate Record Examination or the Field Test of the Undergraduate Assessment Program, between six departments at the main campus and six departments at the extension campus of Florida Southern College. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Frizzell, John Kitchener – 1966
This study was done (1) to determine attitudes of key personnel in both the Division of Continuing Education (General Extension) and the Cooperative Extension Service in Oregon toward an extension service merger per se; and (2) to design and determine a suitable model for integration and to ascertain attitudes toward this model. A normative survey…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Agency Cooperation, Analysis of Variance
Download full textStecklein, John E.; And Others – 1966
In 1964 the University of Minnesota initiated a three-year TV College as an experiment in offering courses to more freshmen and sophomores without compromising quality. The four courses offered in 1964 and the nine in 1965 were taught by regular University faculty and carried full resident credit. They were supplemented by weekly discussion…
Descriptors: College Programs, Credit Courses, Dropout Rate, Educational Background
Association of Univ. Evening Colleges, Norman, OK.
The role of evening colleges in an era of cultural change, major trends and needs in business education at the university level, teacher education, engineering education, the relationship of the Association of University Evening Colleges (AUEC) to the academic community and the wider society, were topics of addresses at the 1967 AUEC convention.…
Descriptors: Budgets, Business Education, Counseling, Credit Courses
Wamsley, Mary Ann, Ed.; Vermeire, Donna M., Ed. – 1977
This Cooperative Extension Service publication from Mississippi State University is a training guide for commercial applicators. Weed control, vertebrate pest control, and environmental considerations and restrictions are the three major parts of the document. The weed control section discusses non-pesticide, mechanical, and biological control as…
Descriptors: Certification, Environmental Education, Environmental Standards, Environmental Technicians
Mississippi State Univ., State College. Cooperative Extension Service. – 1977
This Cooperative Extension Service publication from Mississippi State University is a training guide for commercial pesticide applicators. Focusing on agricultural pest control, this publication includes a full range of topics from uses of pesticides for agricultural animal pest control to the toxicity of common pesticides to fish and bees.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Chemical Occupations, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Trends, Certification
Granat, Richard S.; And Others – 1975
The primary objective of this study is to aid policy makers - state and federal officials, accreditation officials, and university administrators - in making decisions concerning the regulation of postsecondary external degree programs. The purpose of this project is to identify the legal and regulatory issues that the operation of these programs…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Innovation, Extension Education, External Degree Programs
Geisinger, Kurt F. – 1976
An item generation procedure is described which was utilized in the development of Computer Managed Review and Examination courses for the education of nurses in remote areas. The major emphases are the processes of domain definition, item writing, and item edition. Specific discussion is presented concerning methods of item construction to assess…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Criterion Referenced Tests, Extension Education
Baldwin, Lionel V. – 1975
The large number and known career patterns of engineers make them an important target population for the use of videotechnology in programs of continuing professional education. Currently, universities use videobased instruction with engineering students on and off campus. A variety of signal delivery systems are used to link job sites to…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Delivery Systems, Educational Television, Engineering Education
Hamilton, I. Bruce – 1976
The Iowa Higher Education Facilities Commission and the Office of New Degree Programs designed a study with five missions: (1) to identify who the nontraditional learners are and define their learning needs; (2) to inventory all of the unusual educational services already in place; (3) to recommend ways of informing the public more fully about…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Educational Facilities, Educational Needs, Educational Opportunities
