1. Training for the operations engineers and operations management personnel for a statewide system of seven electrical-generation nuclear power plants in the state of Bohrland has recently been overhauled. Due to some close calls caused by human error, higher management has committed to a major overhaul involving millions of dollars for development of a new curriculum and learning resources. In keeping with the latest in educational practice, the engineers are given access to a database containing everything known about nuclear power plant design, construction, operation, and maintenance, including a rich library of multimedia demonstrations, video clip archives, and access to the World Wide Web. To empower the engineers for their own learning, cooperative learning groups are established that determine the problems in which they are interested and what resources they will use. Instructors are used only as facilitators, assisting groups in location of resources they wish to use and helping in the process aspects of working in cooperative groups