William Rainey Harper College in Illinois has a learning resources center with a strong commitment to instructional technology. Faculty members are encouraged and helped to use diverse applications of technology in their courses. (Author/MLF)

Reviews past and current opinions about the role of the language laboratory. Challenges facing the language learning director and teacher, which encompass innovative testing and humanizing the laboratory, are discussed. (RM)

The articles in this book address some of the major issues facing foreign language teachers in the next decade. These issues grow out of the concepts that received most attention in the 1970s: communicative competence, alternatives to traditional instruction, articulation of the curriculum in view of realities in U.S. foreign language departments,…

This discussion of the kind of knowledge acquired by a novice learning BASIC programming and how this knowledge may be most efficiently acquired suggests that people who do programming acquire three basic skills that are not obvious either in instruction or in traditional performance: (1) the ability to analyze each statement into a type of…

Issues and illustrative material are presented from a project evaluating modular courses at McGill University from 1972 to 1976, with the overall intent of aiding instructors to produce instructional modules. Questions related to the nature of modular instruction at McGill, how modular instruction developed, and how it operates are examined.…

POPULATION TRENDS AND BUILDING NEEDS, ORGANIZATION, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, SUMMER SCHOOL, COCURRICULAR LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR THE HANDICAPPED AND MALADJUSTED, NONCLASSROOM PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RELATIONS, AND THE REALITIES OF THE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE ARE DISCUSSED AND EVALUATED WITH RESPECT TO CURRENT MAJOR…

A REPORT OF A CONFERENCE HELD TO ANALYZE LEARNING THEORY AS IT RELATES TO NEW MEDIA AND THE LEARNER IS PRESENTED. THE INVITATIONAL CONFERENCE WAS ATTENDED BY REPRESENTATIVES FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES, STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION, EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES, AND INDUSTRY. THE KNOWLEDGE EXPLOSION COUPLED WITH THE CURRENT REVOLUTION IN…

THE USE OF VIDEOTAPE IN SPEECH CLASSES PERMITS IMMEDIATE REVIEW OF STUDENT PRESENTATION, ALLOWING THE STUDENT TO OBSERVE AND HEAR HIMSELF SIMULTANEOUSLY. REDUCTIONS IN EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEM COSTS HAVE PLACED THIS INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIUM WITHIN THE REACH OF MANY SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. USERS OF VIDEOTAPE FIND IT MORE CONVENIENT AND LESS EXPENSIVE THAN…

A NUMBER OF INNOVATIONS AT GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE ARE DESIGNED TO UPDATE AND IMPROVE JUNIOR COLLEGE EDUCATION. THE USE OF AN AUDIOTUTORIAL APPROACH (PATTERNED AFTER THE OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROJECT) IN LIBERAL ARTS BIOLOGY RESULTED IN A 66-PERCENT DECREASE IN FAILURES AND DROPOUTS, AN INCREASE OF FROM ONE-THIRD TO ONE-HALF IN COURSE CONTENT, AND…

A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE, A MAIL SURVEY, AND A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF JUNIOR COLLEGE DOCUMENTS INDICATE THAT, WHILE CALIFORNIA JUNIOR COLLEGES ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF INSTRUCTION, CONTROL OF THAT QUALITY IS RARELY A SYSTEMATIC ROUTINE ENTERPRISE BASED ON EXAMINATION OF BEHAVIOR CHANGES IN STUDENTS FOLLOWING INSTRUCTION.…

OUTDOOR LEARNING IS DEFINED IN THIS ARTICLE AS A METHOD OF LEARNING WHICH EXPLORES THE ADVANTAGES OF A CHILD'S INVOLVEMENT WITH NATURE. HIGH MOTIVATION, SOUND ENRICHMENT, AND PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ARE SEEN AS OUTCOMES OF AN OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAM. OUTDOOR RESOURCES CAN BE UTILIZED IN ANY COURSE AT ANY GRADE LEVEL IN ANY SCHOOL. A…

THIS RESEARCH INVESTIGATED THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF AURAL OR VISUAL PRESENTATION OF BASIC MUSIC MATERIALS AND WRITTEN OR VOICE RESPONSES. NEW METHODOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY WERE EMPLOYED IN A CONTROLLED LABORATORY SITUATION WITH BOTH GRATIFYING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING RESULTS. WHERE SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS WERE DUE TO THE EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT, THE…

The purpose of this publication is to foster increased interest about innovations in the public schools in Oklahoma and to review some of the most interesting and meaningful innovations in the classroom and significant innovations in the teaching and learning process. Each of the 59 articles includes an introductory section that briefly explains…

Although there are many reports on the introduction of replicable media in junior college instruction, there is a lack of coordinated research on any particular form of instruction. This is a serious matter, for, without date on whether or not anyone has learned anything from one medium, the introduction of any other medium is necessarily based on…

The most significant development in higher education in the last 20 years is the essentialist-existentialist confrontation--the formal versus the vital. What we decide about this matter will determine what we do with all other developments. Essentialists in education are concerned with what is permanent and rational and contend history is a worthy…