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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Pilling-Cormick, Jane; Garrison, D. Randy – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2007
This paper explores links between the concepts and models of self-directed and self-regulated learning. The focus is on the covert (person) and overt (behaviour and environment) aspects that link the fields of self-directed and self-regulated learning. Ways in which each of these areas of study address the private and shared worlds of the learner…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Models, Metacognition, Self Management
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Brook, Paula; Garrison, D. Randy – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 1995
In a survey, 50 continuing education faculty expressed concern about setting the right climate in the first session of a course. They attempt to balance students' needs and concerns with course and content issues. Although they wanted to create the proper social climate, they were only moderately concerned about "getting acquainted." (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Classroom Environment, Continuing Education, Course Content
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Garrison, D. Randy; Kirby, David – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 1995
An innovative professional master's of continuing education program at the University of Calgary took five years to be established. It had to overcome differing views of faculty, the opposition of the dean of education, and other types of political and philosophical resistance. (SK)
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Masters Degrees