A multivariate correlational study examined interrelationships among personal and contextual variables and early childhood administrators' willingness to implement computer technology. A total of 80 administrators of programs in the state of Illinois with a licensed capacity of 80 or more participated in the study. Dependent variables included…

Educational content on the Internet is rapidly increasing. Academics and businesses are placing more course material online to supplement classroom and business training situations. In addition, significant increases in undergraduate enrollments in information system courses, and the rapid pace of new knowledge in the field, have led researchers…

Among the article's predictions for home economics teachers in the future are these: the author sees them teaching value clarification and human potential concepts; increasing their knowledge about environmental concerns; increasing competencies in the areas of child care and family life education; and encouraging boys to take home economics. (AJ)

UNESCO has a long record of support for innovative activities in different countries. In India, UNESCO provides assistance for several activities in the field of technical and higher education. This paper describes the effort made in India to render higher education more relevant to the needs of the country and the extent to which the different…

Processes and outcomes of the implementation of career education programs during the 1974-75 in six diverse school districts located throughout the country were examined. Procedures were designed to use both formal questionnaires and case study methods in gathering information. Use was made of statistical, interview, and documentary data in…

An introductory theatre course at Prince George's Community College (Maryland), taught by a team of three instructors, makes use of contract grading to permit students to become actively involved in theatre on several levels of interest. This paper describes the course and provides a course syllabus, list of contract options for the course, and a…

A review of the literature on improving college instruction and improving college and university instructors produces two conflicting reactions. First, there are many fascinating and encouraging innovations being undertaken to raise the quality of college teaching. Second, although there has been change in higher education, it has not been…

A comprehensive model of the process of organizational innovation was developed by casting a sequential, five-stage model of the process against five broad sets of factors previously found to influence organizational innovation. Using the model, the relative importance of each set of factors within and across each stage of the process was…

The purpose of this project was to study the relationship of certain organizational variables (standardization, formalization, and centralization) to curriculum innovation. It was hypothesized that increasing the formalization of curriculum guidelines and the standardization of curriculum procedures would lead to a decrease in role ambiguity and…

This paper describes the continuing development of a computer assisted instruction system that will connect the computer and a video storage device so as to allow the computer to regulate the delivery of instruction to individual television terminals. The video storage device consists of a videodisc player which feeds television signals from 60…

The authors explore some current models and theories of adult education and give their interpretation of how they can and should be applied in the future. The learning society has always been our goal, but we have not been willing to abandon our principal obstacle--schooling--to achieve it. (Author/AJ)

Examines some issues of the public administration training in the universities of Western industrialized countries offered to the potential bureaucratic elites of the transitional societies. (Author/ND)

Characteristics of gifted children and identification procedures as well as educational provisions for gifted children in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia are discussed in this seminar paper. Ways to modify curricula and ways programs have been enriched for gifted students are pointed out. In the final section of the paper very…

Innovation should not be initiated simply for the sake of change but to make teaching more effective and improve students' learning. Changes in a teacher's method of instruction should be made to meet needs of the students, but the teacher is also responsible for trying different teaching techniques in the classroom that increase his/her enjoyment…