This study reports on progress in predicting overall completion rates for various open learning courses, given the demographic, curricular, and administrative conditions prevailing at the City Colleges of Chicago. (Author)

Some specific suggestions to improve conferencing strategies for media specialists and instructional designers are proposed. (Author)

Describes attempts within the military training establishments to systematize the planning, development, conduct, and evaluation of training. (Author)

The CTEA process described provides a systematic, step-by-step process for comparing proposed training and education system alternatives. (Author)

The purpose of this article is to discuss occupational analysis systems and to locate this place in the military system. (Author)

This article discusses the state of computer-based simulation, reviews the early phases of ISD, suggests that current ISD approaches are missing critical inputs, and proposes a research and development program. (Author)

Report of a study to evaluate the potential systematically developed cognitive pretraining within the context of Air Force undergraduate flying training. (Author)

Describes a systematic approach for designing, delivering, and evaluating individual remedial instructional services for handicapped students within the public school setting. Supplemental instruction is defined as remedial instructional programing that is provided for a pupil in addition to regular or special classroom instruction. (RAO)

Describes focus of current vocational training programs and provides an overview of their effectiveness, as well as the status of the deaf in the world of work. A process for developing such programs, and the job placement history of graduates of such programs at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf are also discussed. (RAO)

The need for appropriate approaches to educational technology research in developing nations is discussed, and two examples of such research, adapted to local technological capabilities, are given. (RAO)

Proposes an approach to evaluation that counters negative bias, i.e., optimistic evaluation research. Procedures and advantages of this approach are discussed. (RAO)

Since the designer of interactive materials must ensure that the learner is directed to the information that he will be expected to acquire, he must recognize the components of the delivery system employed and the process by which they interact to deliver the information. (Author/RAO)

Rationale for implementation of typographic cuing and its effectiveness are discussed, as well as strategies for experimenter-provided and learner-generated cues. Suggestions for selecting cue-worthy information are included. (RAO)

Suggests ways to maximize the individualization of packaged instruction and discusses techniques for developing tutor-assisted modules as a means of keeping a human element in packaged instruction. (RAO)

A program was developed at Purdue University to provide inservice education for professionals involved with handicapped adolescents. The presentations, which are distributed via the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System, use a teleresponse system to remote studios; a model of the network is included. (RAO)