Locating Vocational Education Curriculum and Instructional Materials. ERIC Digest.

Overview & Synopsis

This digest provides a variety of sources for vocational education curricula, lesson plans, and other instructional materials. The section on networking includes listservs and World Wide Web sites that lead to curriculum resources and other valuable information. Access points to the ERIC database are listed, as are instructional materials labs and consortia that produce and often offer their products for sale to the general public. Names, addresses, telephone numbers, World Wide Web sites, and descriptions are provided for eight organizations: Vocational Instructional Materials Lab, Center on Education and Training for Employment, The Ohio State University; Instructional Materials Laboratory, University of Missouri-Columbia; American Association for Vocational Instructional Materials, Winterville, Georgia; Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center, Oklahoma Department of Vocational and Technical Education; Center for Occupational Research and Development, Waco, Texas; Curriculum Materials Service (agricultural education), Columbus, Ohio; Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States; and Curriculum Publications Clearinghouse, Western Illinois University. The National Center for Research in Vocational Education website, a link to State Vocational and Technical Education Curriculum Centers, is listed. Two Curriculum Coordination Centers that still lend materials within their regions are also cited. (YLB)