This chapter addresses the relationship between three different approaches to educational improvement--instructional development (ID), organizational development (OD), and faculty development (FD). These three approaches are related to each other using the concept of readiness for innovation, and a spiral relationship is postulated: an individual,…

In response to recent trends in higher education, this article invites the research specialist to do undergraduate teaching and suggests four ways to make the experience interesting for him as well as rewarding and "relevant" for the student. (JH)

A discussion of the origins and application of Great Britain's National Development Program in Computer Assisted Learning. (HB)

An experiment was carried out at the University of Wyoming with a group of beginning students of Russian. The group consisted of about 30 students at the beginning of the experiment, but by the second semester, the number had been reduced to 15. The method used in this experiment was based on the assumption that true learning occurs when students…

Innovation for its own sake has led to lowered academic standards and a less valuable educational product. Community colleges must stop catering to academically underprepared students by simply entertaining them with instructional innovations and must return to emphases on basic skills, essay examinations, and academically challenging coursework.…

Instructional technology is used at the Chicago Circle campus of the University of Illinois to produce better teaching at lower or at least the same cost, and for basic research in the use of the computer for direct instruction and creative interaction. (Author/MLF)

The course described in the paper is organized around a set of modules, each containing lectures, readings, a simulation game, films, and a research exercise. (Author/ND)

Surveys the innovations that are occurring in chemical education and raises questions that must be answered to assure that innovation has not occurred at the expense of education quality. (GS)

An alternative to the survey approach for teaching history is the team-taught humanities course, that has enjoyed considerable success at Illinois State University, in which history is integrated with art, music, and literature. (Author/ND)

The innovations include: an inquiry-oriented physical science course for prospective elementary teachers; a self-paced introductory physics course for biological science majors and premeds; a liberal arts physics major which emphasizes the historical and social side of physics; a program in which physics students have the opportunity to produce…

Condensed from "Developmental Reading: Diagnostic Teaching, proceedings of the annual Reading Institute (24th, Temple University), published by the Reading Clinic, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1968, 9-16.