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Murphy, Paud – 1981
This report describes the activities of the first 5 years of the Lesotho Distance Teaching Center, which uses distance teaching methods to bring education to more people in Lesotho. Also described are the Center's internal organization, its relationship to other organizations in Lesotho, its costs, and some evaluation findings. Background…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correspondence Schools, Costs, Developing Nations
Download full textDepartment of Agriculture, Washington, DC. Science and Education Administration. – 1980
This appendix supplements and provides documentation for the report that evaluates the consequences of cooperative extension education. Three reports are provided. An evaluation of the report by the citizens' review panel critiques the objectivity and thoroughness of the evaluation report. It finds that the evaluation would be more accurately…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agriculture, County Programs, Economic Change
Cross, Thomas B. – 1983
The value of computer teleconferencing, which enables two or more individuals at two or more locations to communicate, is described. In short, computer teleconferencing brings the expert to the student at a time when the student has time to study, and a person can reenter the system at any time that work and home schedules permit. Once a basic…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Conferences, Continuing Education, Discussion
Russell, James E. – 1984
This report provides an analysis of student performance, in the areas of student persistence, withdrawal, and achievement, in transfer and occupational courses offered by Lincoln Land Community College (LLCC) at Graham Correctional Center (GCC). First, background material provides information on LLCC's teaching system at GCC which began in 1981…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Correctional Education
Crunkilton, John R.; And Others – 1987
A questionnaire was sent to 161 international graduate students studying agricultural education/extension in the United States to identify implications for the International Training Program at the American Farm School near Thessaloniki, Greece, and to assess the students' degree of interest in attending the Farm School's Training Program.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Education, Curriculum Development, Extension Education
Stitsworth, Michael H. – 1987
A 2-year exchange program between Purdue University's extension Department of 4-H and Youth and Togo's University du Benin, funded by the United States Information Agency, is described. In the program, eight Togolese fifth-year agricultural students spent 6 weeks in Indiana with farm families, and eight Indiana 4-H members--including three…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Development
Roberts, David – 1985
Distance education at Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education (RMIHE) in Australia is addressed in two papers by David Roberts. The first paper, "Approaches to Learning: An Institutional Study," discusses the results of 1984 questionnaires and diaries completed by RMIHE distance education students. Information was sought on how…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Distance Education, Extension Education, Foreign Countries
Murphy, William F., Jr. – 1987
The creation of the Virginia Tech Teleport Facility and the installation of a nine-meter (diameter) C-Band satellite uplink antenna provided the initial impetus for the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service (VCES) to explore the use of satellite technology for information and program delivery. The $600,000 uplink became operational in September…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Communications Satellites, Distance Education, Educational Television
Mitchell, Maurice; Nelson, Tom – 1982
In January 1981, a committee at Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) began work to design a system to deliver non-group instruction to homes, businesses, and other off-campus sites. The committee first established criteria for the program to ensure that the Extended Learning System (ELS) would be compatible with and complementary to other…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Delivery Systems, Educational Media, Educational Technology
Air Univ., Gunter AFS, Ala. Extension Course Inst. – 1984
One of six related documents, this publication contains a U.S. Air Force course on communication skills. The course presented is one of three in a program based on the following educational goals for each student: (1) comprehend the principles of effective communication; (2) know some of the factors that enter into international relations,…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Communication Skills, Course Content, Extension Education
Mehrotra, Chandra M. N. – 1981
The Guided Independent Study Program, an individually paced, master-oriented teaching method for serving undergraduate and graduate nontraditional students at the College of St. Scholastica, Minnesota, is described. A number of independent study courses in psychology, gerontology, and education have been offered to students who cannot come to the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, College Students, Competency Based Education, Course Organization
Phelps, Lynn A. – 1982
In times of educational retrenchment, decreasing enrollments among traditional students, and restraints on faculty salaries, college educators need to explore new and innovative types of programs such as off-campus instruction in classroom communication for teachers. An off-campus program provides an excellent opportunity for a communications…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Faculty, Departments, Employment Opportunities
Sarlos, Beatrice E. – 1979
Continuing professional education (CPE), defined as educational services offered to professionals (those who possess initial degrees required for practice) without the restrictions of traditional scheduling, credits, tuition, or instruction methods, is discussed. The importance of a uniform terminology to distinguish the specific area of CPE is…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Delivery Systems, Educational Administration
Peters, Katherine A. – 1977
Services offered by the British Open University are examined to determine the feasibility of establishing similar programs and study centers for an external degree program at Kauai Community College, Kauai, Hawaii. This report covers the history and origin, organization, courses of study, delivery systems, staff, and students at the Open…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correspondence Study, Delivery Systems, Developed Nations
HYMAN, THEODORE M.; MARSH, C. PAUL – 1964
TO COMPARE PROGRAMED SELF-INSTRUCTION WITH THE WORKSHOP METHOD THE FOLLOWING HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED--(1) PROGRAMED SELF-INSTRUCTION IS AS EFFECTIVE AS THE WORKSHOP IN INCREASING THE EXTENSION AGENTS' KNOWLEDGE OF RADIO AS AN EXTENSION TEACHING METHOD, (2) PROGRAMED SELF-INSTRUCTION IS AS EFFECTIVE AS THE WORKSHOP METHOD IN DEVELOPING MORE POSITIVE…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Needs, Extension Agents
