Higher Education, the institutions as well as the associations, have long regarded adult or extension education as a stepchild; consequently, instructional broadcasting as an educational medium has been all but ignored. Yet by 1976 the establishment of the University of North America, a confederation of several radically different regional higher…

According to its President, the Association's achievements during the year were hampered by the change in Government, financial cutbacks, price increases, and job shortages for qualified librarians, but its membership continues to grow and its activities continue to diversify. Other topics covered in the report include the public lending right;…

An educational program assessment of the University Without Walls (UWW), located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and known as "Flaming Rainbow," was presented in this document. The evaluation was conducted during March 27-30, 1973. The 6 American Indian participants, who are financially supported by the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) Higher Education…

A general examination of the assumptions of educational technology as a body of knowledge. (HB)

The Council of Europe's proposed University of Europe, an open university specializing in multidisciplinary inquiry, is described and its organization and program design are outlined. (MSE)

"Independent learning" has become a catchphrase in Britain's Open University, especially since a 1984 report recommending that courses be designed and taught so that students can become progressively independent as learners. Although the phrase means many things to different people, it also provides an opportunity to appraise teaching…

Defines student drop-out; presents data illustrating when external students are at greatest risk; explores reasons for the drop-out phenomenon in light of the distance education theories of Otto Peters, Borje Holmberg, and David Stewart; and lists suggestions to reduce early attrition rates and improve distance education institution functioning.…

Discussion of history instruction, courses, and curricula at the Open University which emphasizes (1) methods and principles and (2) relating history to other academic disciplines. (ND)

This directory of distance education professionals in India covers personnel working in open universities, correspondence course institutes, and directorates of distance education of conventional universities and other national level research institutes. The information was derived from a set of structured questionnaires sent to all involved…

Research indicates that planners of a program modeled after England's Open University must attend to individual differences much greater than those encountered in typical on-campus settings. (Author/PG)

A discussion of the need to find an appropriate structure for decision making within the University, and the need for changes in the structure of higher and adult education generally. (Author)

A description of the Open University as a multimedia system for teaching at a distance with consideration of possibilities of transplanting both the concept and the actuality of the university as an institution to the Third World. (HB)

An analysis of the instructional systems approach used at nonresidential colleges in the United States and Great Britain. (HB)

Argues that while universities may lose their traditional walls by the year 2000, they will survive. Due to economic and social pressures, however, they may become increasingly stratified with sharp differentiations in status among schools and students. (PGD)

The open university is taken to task for promulgating a passive curriculum and for obscuring the dynamic structuring of knowledge by teachers and learners that ought to be at the heart of university scholarship. The "package tour" approach to knowledge that characterizes introductory courses is blamed, in part. (MSE)