The Mutually Aided Learning (MAL) program in Cherry Creek School District, Englewood, Colorado, is a special program that high school students take for credit. Planning for the general program began a year before the course was to be taught. The program, now self-supporting, has two major expenses--released time for the elementary and secondary…

This document investigates the interacting patterns of computer support and usage. Data were obtained from an inventory of computers in American higher education, 1967. The data indicated that the overall national picture masks the great variation among institutions of higher education. Four of the 21 findings were the following: (1) In fiscal…

Roger Williams College is one of 20 colleges and universities engaged in a new cooperative educational venture that offers an alternative approach to obtaining a college degree. The program, called the University Without Walls (UWW), is designed to provide mature students with new learning opportunities in higher education outside of the…

This volume contains four papers concerned with various aspects of the implementation and evaluation of a curriculum innovation. The innovative curriculum was developed by ERIE to provide science instruction, based on behavioral objectives, for elementary students. The first paper introduces ERIE's study of the innovation installation. The next…

A systems approach has been used to develop and validate instructional materials in medical education. Seven self-instructional units, currently in various stages of completion, form the basis of a basic curriculum in opthamology. Performance objectives for the units were derived from the results of a questionnaire responded to by 1,600…

In 1960 a regional college at Temuco, Chile was established to take education to the people of that area and to reach citizens outside metropolitan areas where the only post-secondary institutions were located. In 1961 another regional college at La Serena was established with 6 additional regional centers in operation by 1970. These institutions,…

Although the freshman year in college is perhaps the most important year, the entering freshman often gets the largest classes, the least experienced and poorest paid faculty, the fewest academic options, the least advisement, the dullest subject matter, the least personal living arrangements, and the most personal rules. The first problem that…

The freshman year in college is perhaps the most important year for many reasons. It is during the freshman year that students form their attitudes toward college and their studies. In addition, many students make decisions as to their college major, their potential occupational field, or whether or not to remain in college at all. In spite of the…

This proposed program at Mountain Empire Community College (MECC, Virginia) is designed to teach credit courses to students while they are traveling to and from college. About 86% of the potential student population at MECC will spend from one to over three hours a day commuting. Six adequately equipped buses would facilitate a productive use of…

This compilation of 64 papers on innovative programs in mathematics teacher education describes a great variety of current activity, including the use of individualized instruction, flexible grouping, tutorial programs, laboratory methods, new evaluation schemes, micro-teaching, computer assisted instruction, simulation, and field-oriented…

As part of a project to develop recommendations for program developments in teacher education, a number of program proposals were developed by members of the Committee on National Program Priorities in Teacher Education (CNPPTE). Abstracts of the program proposals were prepared and circulated to critics who were asked to rate separately the major…

Minnesota Metropolitan State College has recently been established as one of the few upper level colleges (colleges offering only junior, senior and graduate level courses) in the U.S. Just about every aspect of MMSC is unique. (1) Planning and operation of the institution have been simultaneous from the outset. (2) There is only 1 main…

The introductory portion of this report defines teacher education centers and briefly describes their developmental continuum. A synthesis of documents concerning student teaching and teacher education centers is followed by a list of features differentiating conventional programs, student teaching centers, and teacher education centers.…

This study reports the results of a systematic inquiry to assess the extent to which consultant teams had contributed to principals' acceptance of innovation. Data were based on the Institutional Change Model developed by an Educational Professional Development Act (EPDA) project. Participants of the study were principals of 12 elementary schools.…

This document presents an evaluation of an instructional system to assist students in the general chemistry course. These materials include a series of 16mm sound motion picture films that outline the required laboratory experiments, slide/tape programs for individual student use designed to teach the student how to analyze and draw conclusions…