Reports on a survey of the training directors at 160 Fortune 500 corporations assessing the scope of computer use in training. Focuses on training applications, hardware, software, courseware, and the number of trainees involved. Sees microcomputers as the link enabling education and business to develop cooperative, onsite training programs. (DMM)

Discusses topics, issues, and goals related to professional continuing education in engineering. One goal is for universities to add continuing education to their charter, alongside undergraduate and graduate training. Ways to start such programs are also discussed, examining scope of programs, teaching methods, background updating, course…

This study, conducted in a major midwestern university among a resident health sciences center population with an established continuing education teaching commitment, analyzes previously documented attendance-motivating factors as instructional motivators by using frequency of rankings to assess relative importance of those factors within and…

Two evaluation approaches were used to assess the impact of a continuing medical education manual that was distributed by mail. Implications for development of materials and for information dissemination strategies in continuing medical education are discussed. (Author/CT)

If law schools and the legal profession are to contribute as much as they should to the development and maintenance of a proficient profession, they must: develop a definition of the proficient lawyer, allocate responsibilities between law schools and profession for educational programs, design programs, and obtain resources. (MLW))

Discussion of rural libraries and librarianship provides a definition of rural areas and notes work of the Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship (based at School of Library Science, Clarion State University), library personnel, professional continuing education for library staff, and renewed and continuing interest in rural library services.…

In this paper the author refers to the practice of educating adults as it has developed in the English universities (extramural studies, professional post-experience courses, and continuing education, and also to the much more recent growth of adult education as a field of study. (SSH)

A study was designed to examine and describe planning strategies used by persons developing continuing professional education (CPE) programs for six professional fields. The research methods used to guide the inquiry were those of grounded theory. From the description of practice in the six professions, a general model portraying the program…

This report provides general findings from the Adult Education for Work-Related Reasons (AEWR) survey of the 2003 National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES). The survey was conducted by random-digit-dial telephone interviewing of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population ages 16 and older who were not enrolled in elementary or…

The Individual Physician Profile codifies patients' problems; the physician is tested on those problems; and, with additional personal information, consultation leads to a tailor-made educational program. (Editor)

Discusses the ways to utilize existing continuing education resources for psychologists and ways to develop cooperative programs for resource development. (GB)

The visiting psychologist program is designed to bring mental health professionals up to date in their field, but long term benefits of the program have been difficult to document. (Editor/GB)

Article describes two efforts that have been made to increase nurses' knowledge and understanding of the Legislative Process. (Author/CB)