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Oliveira, Silas M.; Carroll, Laura B.; Greenidge, Norma – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
The main purposes of this study are to determine the extent to which the James White Library at Andrews University serves the information needs of graduate students enrolled in distance learning programs and to examine their information-seeking behavior to ascertain how they access material for their online courses. A 14-part questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Information Seeking, Distance Education, Access to Information
Woloszyk, Carl A. – 1991
Factors influencing the decision of high school students to enroll in cooperative education programs were investigated in a survey. The stratified random sample consisted of 275 high school students currently enrolled in cooperative education programs in five different types of communities throughout Michigan. The survey questionnaire included 8…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Decision Making, Enrollment Influences, Family Influence
Lum, Lydia – CURRENTS, 2012
At the end of 2010, for the first time ever, smartphones outsold PCs. Mobile device adoption rates continue to rise rapidly around the world. A recent forecast by Cisco found that global mobile data traffic more than doubled last year, and by the end of 2012, the number of mobile devices in use will outnumber the world's population. In the United…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Community Colleges, Institutional Advancement
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Coursera has been operating for only a few months, but the company has already persuaded some of the world's best-known universities to offer free courses through its online platform. Colleges that usually move at a glacial pace are rushing into deals with the upstart company. But what exactly have they signed up for? And if the courses are free,…
Descriptors: Income, School Business Relationship, Higher Education, Student Costs
Instructional Development and Evaluation Associates, Inc., Berkeley, MI. – 1982
A three-year study examined the significant factors that affect the job placement rates of students completing a Home Economics Related Occupations (HERO) program. Other purposes of the study were to develop and pilot test a model that could be used to determine factors related to student placement in a variety of vocational education programs and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Care Occupations, Clothing, Educational Strategies